Early Legal Treatises

Early Legal Treatises in United Kingdom

Treatises and Handbooks of Procedure and Pleading

(Source: the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) “At a very early period in the history of our law, men began to make compendia of different parts of the law of procedure, and to attempt some systematic exposition of the law. But the books of practice at first decidedly predominated over the text-books, or perhaps it would be better to say that such exposition that existed was often appended to the matter in the books of practice. Even when we get institutional works like Glanvill and Bracton, there is a heavy percentage in them of legal forms.” (75) Early legal treatises have been divided here into those providing primarily an analysis of the law, and those that fall more into the category of practice guides, or handbooks of procedure and pleading.

Early Legal Treatises and Medieval Law

Early Legal Treatises and Legal History

Bibliographies of English Law History

  • Maxwell, William H. A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 1: English Law to 1800. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1955-
  • Beale, Joseph H. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
  • Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.

Resources

See Also

  • Concilliar Courts (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Chattels (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Lordship Rights (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Institute of Historical Research (in this legal Encyclopedia)

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