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104:, with some others of antient date; whose treatises are cited as authority, and are evidence that cases have formerly happened, in which such and such points were determined, which are now become settled and first principles. One of the last of these methodical writers in point of time, whose works are of any intrinsic authority in the courts of justice, and do not depend on the strength of their quotations from older authors, is the same learned judge we have just mentioned, 45:
These books are treated by the courts as authoritative statements of the law as it was at the time at which they were written, on the authority of their authors alone. Consequently, they are treated as authoritative statements of the law as it is at the present time, unless it is shown that the law
336:, but also "Cum sit necessarium", "Exceptiones ad Cassandum Brevia", "Fet Asaver", "Judicium Essoniorum", and "Modus Componendi Brevia", among others. More recent scholarly 647: 673:
Brand, Paul. (1979). Quo Waranto. Law in the Reign of Edward I: A Hitherto Undiscovered Opinion of Chief Justice Hengham. "Irish Jurist" new ser., 14. 124-172.
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See, for instance, Woodbine, George E. (1910). "Four Thirteenth-Century Law Tracts". Diss. Yale University, 1910. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Besides these reporters, there are also other authors, to whom great veneration and respect is paid by the students of the common law. Such are
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The statements made in these books are presumed to be evidence of judicial decisions which are no longer
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Brand, Paul. (1993). Nothing which is New or Unique? A Reappraisal of "Judicium Essoniorum"." In
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The Life of the Law: Proceedings of the Tenth British Legal History Conference, Oxford, 1991
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that are excepted from the rule that textbooks (and all books other than
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is a term used by legal writers to refer to a number of early legal
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has changed, and may be cited and relied on in court as such.
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Arkenberg, Jerome S. (2002). Hengham, Ralph de (d. 1311).
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Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485
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Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Realm of England
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Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus regni Angliae
34:) are not treated as authorities by the courts of 151:Epitome Annalium Librorum tempore Henrici Sexti ( 112: 694: 574:, 4th ed., 1960, chapter 14, pp. 186 – 203 183:) is unknown. This book is sometimes called 277:Summa de Legibus Anglie que Vocatur Bretone 617:The Chief Sources of English Legal History 193:from which some of its cases are abridged. 318:was believed to be a prolific author of 695: 539: 297:Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani 198:Treatises, commentaries and institutes 441:The History of the Pleas of the Crown 248:De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae 202: 591:Commentaries on the Laws of England 493:Commentaries on the Laws of England 16:Term for some early legal textbooks 13: 417:Institutes of the Lawes of England 252:On the Laws and Customs of England 174:Abridgement of the Book of Assizes 14: 719: 680: 602:"De Legibus" was never completed. 340:, however, reveals that only the 137:La Graunde Abridgement (1568) by 123:La Graunde Abridgement (1514) by 56:On the subject of this practice, 386: 523: 667: 652: 636: 625: 605: 596: 580: 459:Treatise on Pleas of the Crown 117: 113:Abridgements of the year books 1: 555: 485: 255: 223: 177: 152: 504: 364: 347: 166: 7: 567:A First Book of English Law 207: 10: 724: 451: 436:Historia Placitorum Coronæ 309: 269: 241: 145: 481:(1762) by Michael Foster. 470: 394:La Novelle Natura Brevium 131: 289: 517:Christopher St. Germain 428: 409: 233:; possibly the work of 285:. (late 13th century). 110: 593:, Book I, pp. 72 - 73 62: 686:Rutgers University, 540:On the law merchant 420:(1628-1644) by Sir 403:Anthony Fitzherbert 358:Thomas de Littleton 354:Treatise on Tenures 125:Anthony Fitzherbert 688:Books of authority 587:William Blackstone 512:Doctor and Student 498:William Blackstone 399:New Natura Brevium 377:Pleas of the Crown 231:Ranulf de Glanvill 172:The author of the 58:William Blackstone 20:Books of authority 708:Legal terminology 612:Winfield, Percy H 572:Sweet and Maxwell 550:Gerard de Malynes 381:William Staunford 229:). Attributed to 203:On the common law 36:England and Wales 715: 674: 671: 665: 656: 650: 640: 634: 629: 623: 609: 603: 600: 594: 584: 562:O. 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textbooks
statute
law report
England and Wales
common law
extant
William Blackstone
Glanvill
Bracton
Britton
Fleta
Hengham
Littleton
Statham
Brooke
Fitzherbert
Staundeforde
Sir Edward Coke
Anthony Fitzherbert
Robert Broke
Nicholas Statham
Liber Assisarum
Year Book
Tractatus de Legibus et Consuetudinibus regni Angliae
Ranulf de Glanvill
Hubert Walter
Henry de Bracton
Summa de Legibus Anglie que Vocatur Bretone (Britton)
Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani (Fleta)
Ralph de Hengham

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