Bracton's Note Book (3-Volume Set) : A Collection of Cases Decided in the King's Courts during the Reign of Henry the Third (Cambridge Library Collect （Reissue）

Maitland, Frederic William (EDT)

Cambridge Univ Pr（2010/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 1826 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108010313
• DDC分類 941

Full Description

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 lawsuits from the thirteenth century, each with a description of how the law should be applied to this set of circumstances. 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.

Contents

Volume 1the Athenaeum; Note on the classification of the Plea Rolls; List of MSS. of Bracton's Treatise to which reference has been made; Introduction; Tables; Indices. Volume 2: Pleas in the Bench; Appendix. Volume 3: Pleas in the Bench; Pleas before the King; Pleas in the Bench; Pleas from the Eyres; Appendix.