old natura brevium

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old natura brevium - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  OLD NATURA BREVIUM. The title of an old English book, (usually cited Vet. N. 
  B.) so called to distinguish it from the F. N. B. It contains the writs most 
  in use in the reign of Edward III, together with a short comment on the 
  application and properties of each of them,