However, this work is extant only in later reworkings and abridgements, of which the best known is ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām's (died 833 834) Sīrat Muḥammad rasūl Allāh ("Life of Muhammad, the Messenger of God").
A stage of human history rather later than that of savages was delineated within An Abridgement of English History, which Burke wrote after 1757, but did not finish.
The case established the doctrine of fair abridgement, which allowed that abridgements displaying a fair amount of labour on the part of the editor, and that differed from the original published work in a significant way, could not be piracy.
Gyles v Wilcox (1740) 26 ER 489 was a decision of the Court of Chancery of England that established the doctrine of fair abridgement, which would later evolve into the concept of fair use.
It established the common law doctrine of fair abridgement, which was cited in other cases, ultimately building up to the idea of fair use.
Which side of which island?
An abridgement of Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo, which is set during World War Two.
Per this inscription, which is an abridgement of a passage by Sir Francis Bacon, we readers ought to approach knowledge as a means of enhancing our judgment and not as fodder for proclamations or discord.
Another page comes from the magnificent Chingiz-Nameh, an abridgement of an early 14th-century Iranian chronicle, which was commissioned in the late 16th century by Akbar, the Moghul emperor of Hindustan.
Section 2 prohibits any jurisdiction from implementing a "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure... in a manner which results in a denial or abridgement of the right... to vote on account of race," color, or language minority status.
Mr. Jason, 78, is a classically trained actor who not only recorded the book but did the abridgement of the earlier version and also translated the final volume, which Proust's first English translator, C. K. Scott Moncrieff, left unfinished at his death.
