Full Text Records of Parliament

Full Text Records of Parliament in United Kingdom

(Source: the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) The earliest and most important published records of parliament are the Rotuli Parliamentorum, which cover the period 1272-1503. These should be consulted to see the original authorized text of any statute from 1 Richard III (1483) on. However, at the beginning of Edward III’s reign, as A.R. Myers points out, “the records of parliament were still unorganised…(A)fter 1339 they improve and on the whole become increasingly full and informative about the proceedings until the end of the century. In the fifteenth century they gradually become more formal until… they become little more than records of legislation. So pronounced was this trend that the statute rolls exist only down to 1468, and the printed collection, the Statutes of the Realm, vols I and II (Record Commn, 1810,1916) had to fill the gap with transcripts of the statutes amongst the Exchequer records and elsewhere.” (41) For a detailed listing of early publications on parliament, see Maxwell.(42)

Full Text Records of Parliament and Medieval Law

Full Text Records of Parliament and Legal History

Legal Materials in relation to Edward V

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Gwillim, Henry, and Charles Ellis, eds. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament, With Reports of Cases, Argued and Determined in the Courts of Law and Equity, Respecting Tithes. 2nd ed. London: J. Butterworth, 1825.

Notes: First edition (1801) also available online in The Making of Modern Law; ModernEconomy (subscription databases)Abstract: Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament with reports of cases covering the years 1224-1824.

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.

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See Also

  • Pleading (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Judicial Review (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Burglary (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Ecclesiastical Law (in this legal Encyclopedia)

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