Bracton’s Note Book
A Collection of Cases Decided in the King’s Courts during the Reign of Henry the Third
Henry de Bracton author Frederic William Maitland editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:31st Oct '10
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A collection of 2,000 legal cases from the thirteenth century which form the first example of English case law.
Henry of Bracton (or Bratton) (c. 1210–1268) was an English jurist. These volumes contain a collection of 2,000 law cases, each with a description of how the law should be applied. Volume 2 contains the texts of Pleas in the Bench from 1218 to 1234.Henry of Bracton (or Bratton) (c. 1210–1268) was a jurist who worked as a Justice of Assize in the south-west of England, and was the author of the first systematic discussion of English common law. The manuscripts which form Bracton's Note Book were discovered in the British Museum in 1884 by Vinogradoff, and were edited in three volumes in 1887 by Maitland. These volumes contain a collection of over 2,000 law cases from the thirteenth century, each with a description of how the law should be applied to the particular circumstances of each case. This is the first example of case law in English legal writing, and its usefulness as a record of legal precedent probably led to the creation of Year Rolls (official records of court cases) from 1268. Volume 2 contains the texts of Pleas in the Bench from 1218 to 1234.
ISBN: 9781108010306
Dimensions: 216mm x 41mm x 140mm
Weight: 910g
730 pages