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BRACTON, Henry de (d. 1268). De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae libri quinique in varios tractatus distincti, London: Richard Tottell, 1569. 4° (280 x 185mm.). (V1 with section of outer margin torn away, some small marginal wormtracks or holes, occasional light spotting and browning). 20th-century mottled calf, spines panelled in gilt, labelled in 2, g.e. (Joints and edges lightly rubbed). Provenance: occasional early underlinging and marginalia.
FIRST PRINTED EDITION OF BRACTON'S TREATISES ON MEDIEVAL LAW, the unknown editor signing the preface 'T.N.' and taking credit for a careful recension of the text. Portions of the text had previously appeared in other books. The Treatise of the Laws of England of c. 1533, a work traditionally attributed to John Britton, was largely derived from Bracton, while Sir William Staunderford's Plees del Coron of 1557 contained extensive quotations from the same source. Probably written between 1250 and 1260, Bracton's work was the first great exposition of English law and was cited in court up to the 18th-century. Referring in a practical manner to no less than 500 decisions of the king's judges, it moulded the common law of England into an effective form, and established the principal of precedent later followed by Littleton and Coke. Beale T323; Sweet and Maxwell I, p.38:4; PMM 89.
FIRST PRINTED EDITION OF BRACTON'S TREATISES ON MEDIEVAL LAW, the unknown editor signing the preface 'T.N.' and taking credit for a careful recension of the text. Portions of the text had previously appeared in other books. The Treatise of the Laws of England of c. 1533, a work traditionally attributed to John Britton, was largely derived from Bracton, while Sir William Staunderford's Plees del Coron of 1557 contained extensive quotations from the same source. Probably written between 1250 and 1260, Bracton's work was the first great exposition of English law and was cited in court up to the 18th-century. Referring in a practical manner to no less than 500 decisions of the king's judges, it moulded the common law of England into an effective form, and established the principal of precedent later followed by Littleton and Coke. Beale T323; Sweet and Maxwell I, p.38:4; PMM 89.
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