Part v contains a
descriptive
account of original versions, printed
editions and commentaries.
editions and commentaries.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08
6 vols.
1882-3.
Holdsworth, W. S. A History of English Law. 1903. (In progress. )
Kent, J. Commentaries on American Law. 4 vols. 1826-30. 12th ed. Ed.
Holmes, 0. W. 1873.
Pollock, Sir F. and Maitland, F. W. History of English Law before the time
of Edward I. 2nd ed. 2 vols. 1898.
Reeves, John. History of English Law, to the death of Elizabeth. 3rd ed.
5 vols. 1814–29. Ed. Finlason, W. F. 3 vols. 1869.
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History. 3 vols. Cambridge and
Boston. 1908–10.
B. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF ENGLISH LEGAL LITERATURE
Arber, Edward. The Term Catalogues 1668–1709. 3 vols. 1903-6.
Basset, Thomas. Catalogue of Common and Statute Law Books. 1673.
Other eds. 1682, 1684, 1694, 1699, 1700.
Bridgman, R. W. A Short View of Legal Bibliography, containing some
critical observations on the Authority of the Reporters and other Law
Writers. 1807.
Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England. 2nd ed. 15 vols. 1906-9.
Gives bibliographies to all the principal articles and a list of Law
Reports, vol. VIII, sub tit.
Fulbecke, W. A Direction or Preparative to the Study of Law. 1600.
[Contains a chapter on standard authors. ]
Harvard University. Catalogue of the Library of the Law School. 2 vols.
1909.
London, W. A catalogue of the most vendible Books in England. 1658.
Supplement. 1660.
Contains a section on Books of the Common and Civil Law.
Maitland, F. W. English Law and the Renaissance. 1901.
Contains, among the notes pp. 90-94, lists of law books available 1550
and 1600.
Middle Temple. Bibliotheca . . . Societatis in Ordinem juxta rerum naturam
Redacta ac digesta: V Iduum Sept. MDCC. Auspicio et Sumptu Barth.
Shower, Militis. 1700.
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Soule, C. C. The Lawyer's Reference Manual of Law Books and Citations.
Boston, 1883.
An indispensable work of reference for bibliographical information
about the reports both old and new.
Year Book Bibliography. Harvard Law Review, vol. xiv. 1901.
Wallace, J. W. The Reporters. 4th ed. 1882.
C. THE CHIEF WORKS IN ENGLISH LEGAL LITERATURE
I. Anglo-Saxon
The chief remains of the period will be found in :
Liebermann, F. Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Halle, 1898-1903.
Schmid, R. Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. 1832. 2nd ed. 1858.
Thorpe, B. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England. 1840.
II. Norman and Angevin
Bracton and Azo. Ed. Maitland, F. W. Selden Society. 1895.
Bracton, H. de. Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae. Written
c. 1256; printed 1569, 1640. Ed. Twiss, T. 6 vols. 1878-83.
Bracton's Note Book. Ed. Maitland, F. W. 3 vols. 1887.
Britton. Written c. 1290; printed c. 1530. Under superintendence of
Wingate, E. 1640. Ed. Nichols, F. M. 2 vols. 1855. With an intro-
duction by Baldwin, S. E. Washington, 1901.
Fleta. Written c. 1290; printed with a preliminary dissertation by Selden,
John, 1647, 1685.
Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, by Woodbine, G. E. 1910.
Their titles are: Fet Asaver, Judicium Essoniorum, Modus Compo-
nendi Brevia and Exceptiones ad Cassandum Brevia.
Glanvil. Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae. Written
c. 1189; printed 1554 (? ), 1557, 1604, 1673 ff. Translated by Beames 1812,
with introduction by Beale, J. H. Washington, 1900.
Hengham, R. de. Summa Magna and Summa Parva, prefixed to editions of
Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae.
Horne, A. The Mirror of Justices. Written in the 13th century; printed 1642.
Modern ed. by Whittaker, W. J. , with critical introduction by Maitland,
F. W. Selden Society. 1895.
Leges Anglorum saeculo XII ineunte Londiniis collectae. Ed. Liebermann,
F. 1894.
Leges Edwardi Confessoris. Ed. Liebermann, F. 1896.
Leges Henrici I. Ed. Liebermann, F. 1901.
Leges Willelmi I. Ed. Schmid, R. 1858.
Magna Carta . . . with an historical introduction by McKechnie, W. S. 1905.
Part v contains a descriptive account of original versions, printed
editions and commentaries.
Novae Narrationes. Written early in Edward III's reign; first printed about
1515 and again in 1561 with Articuli ad Novas Narrationes and the Booke
of Diversities of Courtes.
Olde Tenures. Written probably in Edward III's reign; first published in 1525
and several times in 16th century; is included in Coke's Tracts and other
modern works.
Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I. Ed.
Bigelow, M. M. 1879.
Quadripartitus, ein Englisches Rechtsbuch von 1114. Ed. Liebermann, F.
1892.
Rectitudines Singularum Personarum. Ed. Schmid, R. 1858.
E. L. VIII.
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Bibliography
The Year Books. For early eds. , see Soule's Year Book Bibliography
modern editions of selected years in Rolls Series and Selden Society's
publications, and edition collected by Maynard, Sir John, 1678-80.
III. Fifteenth Century
Articuli ad Novas Narrationes. Written in earlier half of the century; first
printed about 1525, again in 1528 and 1545, and see Novae Narrationes,
ante.
Fortescue, Sir John. De Laudibus Legum Angliae. Written c. 1470; printed
1537. Many editions during 16th and 17th centuries. Translated 1573.
Commentary by Waterhouse, E. 1663.
De Natura Legis Naturae. Written c. 1462; first published by lord Cler.
mont in 1864.
On the Governance of the Kingdom of England. Written c. 1471; first
published in 1714. Ed. Plummer, C. 1885.
Littleton, Sir Thomas. Tenures. Written c. 1475-80; printed c. 1481. Many
editions during 16th and 17th centuries. Commentary Coke. 1628.
Ed. Wambaugh, E. 1901. [Contains detailed bibliography. ]
Lyndewood, William. Constitutiones Provinciales Ecclesiae Anglicanae.
Written c. 1433; printed c. 1480. Many editions during 16th and 17th
centuries.
Statham, Nicholas. Abridgment of Cases. Written c. 1490; printed c. 1495,
1585, 1679.
Statutes. For particulars of early printed editions, translations and abridg-
ments of the Statutes see the first volume of the Statutes of the Realm
(1235-1713) printed by the Record Commissioners, 11 vols. , 1810-28.
The Year Books. See ante.
IV. Sixteenth Century
Bekinsan, J. de. De supremo et absoluto regis imperio. 1546.
Brooke, Sir Robert. Le Graunde Abridgement. 1568.
A Reading upon the Statute of Magna Charta cap. 16. 1641.
A Reading on the Statute of Limitations. 1647.
Crompton, Richard. Office et Aucthoritie de Justices de Peace. 1583.
L’Authoritie et Jurisdiction des Courts de la Majestie de la Roygne.
1594, 1637.
Diversite des Courtes. Attributed to Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony. Printed in
1523, 1526, 1530(? ), 1535 ff.
Dyer, Sir J. Reports in Law French. 1585 ff. Translation by Vaillant, J.
3 vols. 1794.
Entries. Intrationum liber omnibus legum Angliae studiosis apprime neces-
sarius in se complectens diversas formas placitorum. 1546.
Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony. Le Graunde Abridgement. 1516.
La Nouvelle Natura Brevium. 1534.
L'Office et Auctoritie de Justices de Peace. 1538. Translation with
commentary by Hale, Sir M. 1635.
L'Office de Viconts, Bailiffes, Escheators, Constables, Coroners. 1538;
and included with some editions of the preceding.
Gentili, Alberico. De Legationibus. 1585.
De Jure Belli. 1588-9.
Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo. 1613.
For an estimate and the scheme of these three works, see Walker's
History of the Law of Nations, vol. I, pp. 249-274. The Dictionary of
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National Biography contains a complete list of Gentili's writings published
and unpublished.
Lambard, William. Archaionomia, sive de priscis Anglorum Legibus libri.
1568. Republished with Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, 1644.
Eirenarcha, or the Office of Justices of the Peace. 1581.
The Duty of Constables. 1582.
Archeion, or a commentary upon the High Courts of Justice. 1635.
Manwood, John. A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest. 1592.
Perkins, John. The ‘Profitable Book' ('perutilis tractatus magistri Jo.
Parkins'). 1532.
Plowden, Edmund. Les commentaires ou les Reportes. 1571 ff.
Les Quaeres. Included in some editions of the Reports. Translated into
English. 1662, 1761, 1779, 1816.
Pulton, Ferdinando. An Abstract of all the Penal Statutes. 1579, 1586.
Collection of Statutes. Published in several editions between 1606 and
1615.
De Pace Regis et Regni, viz. A Treatise declaring which be the great
and general offences of the realm. 1609, 1610, 1615.
Rastell, John. Exposiciones Terminorum Legum Anglorum. 1527.
Sometimes attributed to his son William who published an English
translation 1567, rptd several times and known in the 17th century as Les
Termes de la Ley.
Rastell, William. A Collection of all the Statutes from the beginning of
Magna Carta until the yere of our Lord 1557. 1559.
Continued by Pulton (q. v. ).
A Collection of Entrees, of Declarations, Barros, Replications. . . and
divers other matters. 1556, 1574, 1596.
Registrum Omnium Brevium, tam Originalium, quam Judicialium. 1531,
1553 and various later eds.
St German, Christopher. Doctor and Student. First published under the
title Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum et de Conscientia. 1523. Many
later editions down to 1874.
Smith, Sir Thomas. De Republica Anglorum. 1583 ff. Ed. Maitland, F. W.
and Alston, L. Cambridge, 1907.
Statutes of the Realm. See ante.
Staundford, Sir W. Les Plees del Coron. 1560, 1567, 1574, 1583.
An Exposicion of the Kinge's Prerogative. 1567, 1568, 1577, 1590.
Swinburne, Henry. A Briefe treatise of Testaments and Last Willes. 1590.
Holdsworth, W. S. A History of English Law. 1903. (In progress. )
Kent, J. Commentaries on American Law. 4 vols. 1826-30. 12th ed. Ed.
Holmes, 0. W. 1873.
Pollock, Sir F. and Maitland, F. W. History of English Law before the time
of Edward I. 2nd ed. 2 vols. 1898.
Reeves, John. History of English Law, to the death of Elizabeth. 3rd ed.
5 vols. 1814–29. Ed. Finlason, W. F. 3 vols. 1869.
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History. 3 vols. Cambridge and
Boston. 1908–10.
B. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF ENGLISH LEGAL LITERATURE
Arber, Edward. The Term Catalogues 1668–1709. 3 vols. 1903-6.
Basset, Thomas. Catalogue of Common and Statute Law Books. 1673.
Other eds. 1682, 1684, 1694, 1699, 1700.
Bridgman, R. W. A Short View of Legal Bibliography, containing some
critical observations on the Authority of the Reporters and other Law
Writers. 1807.
Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England. 2nd ed. 15 vols. 1906-9.
Gives bibliographies to all the principal articles and a list of Law
Reports, vol. VIII, sub tit.
Fulbecke, W. A Direction or Preparative to the Study of Law. 1600.
[Contains a chapter on standard authors. ]
Harvard University. Catalogue of the Library of the Law School. 2 vols.
1909.
London, W. A catalogue of the most vendible Books in England. 1658.
Supplement. 1660.
Contains a section on Books of the Common and Civil Law.
Maitland, F. W. English Law and the Renaissance. 1901.
Contains, among the notes pp. 90-94, lists of law books available 1550
and 1600.
Middle Temple. Bibliotheca . . . Societatis in Ordinem juxta rerum naturam
Redacta ac digesta: V Iduum Sept. MDCC. Auspicio et Sumptu Barth.
Shower, Militis. 1700.
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465
Soule, C. C. The Lawyer's Reference Manual of Law Books and Citations.
Boston, 1883.
An indispensable work of reference for bibliographical information
about the reports both old and new.
Year Book Bibliography. Harvard Law Review, vol. xiv. 1901.
Wallace, J. W. The Reporters. 4th ed. 1882.
C. THE CHIEF WORKS IN ENGLISH LEGAL LITERATURE
I. Anglo-Saxon
The chief remains of the period will be found in :
Liebermann, F. Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. Halle, 1898-1903.
Schmid, R. Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen. 1832. 2nd ed. 1858.
Thorpe, B. Ancient Laws and Institutes of England. 1840.
II. Norman and Angevin
Bracton and Azo. Ed. Maitland, F. W. Selden Society. 1895.
Bracton, H. de. Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae. Written
c. 1256; printed 1569, 1640. Ed. Twiss, T. 6 vols. 1878-83.
Bracton's Note Book. Ed. Maitland, F. W. 3 vols. 1887.
Britton. Written c. 1290; printed c. 1530. Under superintendence of
Wingate, E. 1640. Ed. Nichols, F. M. 2 vols. 1855. With an intro-
duction by Baldwin, S. E. Washington, 1901.
Fleta. Written c. 1290; printed with a preliminary dissertation by Selden,
John, 1647, 1685.
Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts, by Woodbine, G. E. 1910.
Their titles are: Fet Asaver, Judicium Essoniorum, Modus Compo-
nendi Brevia and Exceptiones ad Cassandum Brevia.
Glanvil. Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus Regni Angliae. Written
c. 1189; printed 1554 (? ), 1557, 1604, 1673 ff. Translated by Beames 1812,
with introduction by Beale, J. H. Washington, 1900.
Hengham, R. de. Summa Magna and Summa Parva, prefixed to editions of
Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae.
Horne, A. The Mirror of Justices. Written in the 13th century; printed 1642.
Modern ed. by Whittaker, W. J. , with critical introduction by Maitland,
F. W. Selden Society. 1895.
Leges Anglorum saeculo XII ineunte Londiniis collectae. Ed. Liebermann,
F. 1894.
Leges Edwardi Confessoris. Ed. Liebermann, F. 1896.
Leges Henrici I. Ed. Liebermann, F. 1901.
Leges Willelmi I. Ed. Schmid, R. 1858.
Magna Carta . . . with an historical introduction by McKechnie, W. S. 1905.
Part v contains a descriptive account of original versions, printed
editions and commentaries.
Novae Narrationes. Written early in Edward III's reign; first printed about
1515 and again in 1561 with Articuli ad Novas Narrationes and the Booke
of Diversities of Courtes.
Olde Tenures. Written probably in Edward III's reign; first published in 1525
and several times in 16th century; is included in Coke's Tracts and other
modern works.
Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I. Ed.
Bigelow, M. M. 1879.
Quadripartitus, ein Englisches Rechtsbuch von 1114. Ed. Liebermann, F.
1892.
Rectitudines Singularum Personarum. Ed. Schmid, R. 1858.
E. L. VIII.
30
## p. 466 (#488) ############################################
466
Bibliography
The Year Books. For early eds. , see Soule's Year Book Bibliography
modern editions of selected years in Rolls Series and Selden Society's
publications, and edition collected by Maynard, Sir John, 1678-80.
III. Fifteenth Century
Articuli ad Novas Narrationes. Written in earlier half of the century; first
printed about 1525, again in 1528 and 1545, and see Novae Narrationes,
ante.
Fortescue, Sir John. De Laudibus Legum Angliae. Written c. 1470; printed
1537. Many editions during 16th and 17th centuries. Translated 1573.
Commentary by Waterhouse, E. 1663.
De Natura Legis Naturae. Written c. 1462; first published by lord Cler.
mont in 1864.
On the Governance of the Kingdom of England. Written c. 1471; first
published in 1714. Ed. Plummer, C. 1885.
Littleton, Sir Thomas. Tenures. Written c. 1475-80; printed c. 1481. Many
editions during 16th and 17th centuries. Commentary Coke. 1628.
Ed. Wambaugh, E. 1901. [Contains detailed bibliography. ]
Lyndewood, William. Constitutiones Provinciales Ecclesiae Anglicanae.
Written c. 1433; printed c. 1480. Many editions during 16th and 17th
centuries.
Statham, Nicholas. Abridgment of Cases. Written c. 1490; printed c. 1495,
1585, 1679.
Statutes. For particulars of early printed editions, translations and abridg-
ments of the Statutes see the first volume of the Statutes of the Realm
(1235-1713) printed by the Record Commissioners, 11 vols. , 1810-28.
The Year Books. See ante.
IV. Sixteenth Century
Bekinsan, J. de. De supremo et absoluto regis imperio. 1546.
Brooke, Sir Robert. Le Graunde Abridgement. 1568.
A Reading upon the Statute of Magna Charta cap. 16. 1641.
A Reading on the Statute of Limitations. 1647.
Crompton, Richard. Office et Aucthoritie de Justices de Peace. 1583.
L’Authoritie et Jurisdiction des Courts de la Majestie de la Roygne.
1594, 1637.
Diversite des Courtes. Attributed to Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony. Printed in
1523, 1526, 1530(? ), 1535 ff.
Dyer, Sir J. Reports in Law French. 1585 ff. Translation by Vaillant, J.
3 vols. 1794.
Entries. Intrationum liber omnibus legum Angliae studiosis apprime neces-
sarius in se complectens diversas formas placitorum. 1546.
Fitzherbert, Sir Anthony. Le Graunde Abridgement. 1516.
La Nouvelle Natura Brevium. 1534.
L'Office et Auctoritie de Justices de Peace. 1538. Translation with
commentary by Hale, Sir M. 1635.
L'Office de Viconts, Bailiffes, Escheators, Constables, Coroners. 1538;
and included with some editions of the preceding.
Gentili, Alberico. De Legationibus. 1585.
De Jure Belli. 1588-9.
Hispanicae Advocationis Libri Duo. 1613.
For an estimate and the scheme of these three works, see Walker's
History of the Law of Nations, vol. I, pp. 249-274. The Dictionary of
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467
National Biography contains a complete list of Gentili's writings published
and unpublished.
Lambard, William. Archaionomia, sive de priscis Anglorum Legibus libri.
1568. Republished with Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, 1644.
Eirenarcha, or the Office of Justices of the Peace. 1581.
The Duty of Constables. 1582.
Archeion, or a commentary upon the High Courts of Justice. 1635.
Manwood, John. A Brefe Collection of the Lawes of the Forest. 1592.
Perkins, John. The ‘Profitable Book' ('perutilis tractatus magistri Jo.
Parkins'). 1532.
Plowden, Edmund. Les commentaires ou les Reportes. 1571 ff.
Les Quaeres. Included in some editions of the Reports. Translated into
English. 1662, 1761, 1779, 1816.
Pulton, Ferdinando. An Abstract of all the Penal Statutes. 1579, 1586.
Collection of Statutes. Published in several editions between 1606 and
1615.
De Pace Regis et Regni, viz. A Treatise declaring which be the great
and general offences of the realm. 1609, 1610, 1615.
Rastell, John. Exposiciones Terminorum Legum Anglorum. 1527.
Sometimes attributed to his son William who published an English
translation 1567, rptd several times and known in the 17th century as Les
Termes de la Ley.
Rastell, William. A Collection of all the Statutes from the beginning of
Magna Carta until the yere of our Lord 1557. 1559.
Continued by Pulton (q. v. ).
A Collection of Entrees, of Declarations, Barros, Replications. . . and
divers other matters. 1556, 1574, 1596.
Registrum Omnium Brevium, tam Originalium, quam Judicialium. 1531,
1553 and various later eds.
St German, Christopher. Doctor and Student. First published under the
title Dialogus de Fundamentis Legum et de Conscientia. 1523. Many
later editions down to 1874.
Smith, Sir Thomas. De Republica Anglorum. 1583 ff. Ed. Maitland, F. W.
and Alston, L. Cambridge, 1907.
Statutes of the Realm. See ante.
Staundford, Sir W. Les Plees del Coron. 1560, 1567, 1574, 1583.
An Exposicion of the Kinge's Prerogative. 1567, 1568, 1577, 1590.
Swinburne, Henry. A Briefe treatise of Testaments and Last Willes. 1590.
