Handbooks of Procedure in United Kingdom

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Handbooks of Procedure and Legal History

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(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Consuetudines Diversarum Curiarum . The Selden Society (SS), 60 for 1941. London: Quaritch, 1941.

Abstract: A tract E of about the year 1240 explaining judicial procedure in civil and ecclesiastical cases and criminal procedures at Assizes. Published as an appendix to Richardson and Sayles Select cases of procedure without writ under Henry III (SS, Vol. 60 for 1941)

Dunham, William H., ed. Casus Placitorum, and Reports of the Cases in the King’s Courts, 1272-1278 . The Selden Society (SS), 69 for 1950. London: Quaritch, 1952.

Abstract: Text in English. The Casus resembles an annotated casebook based on judicial decisions delivered during the reign of Henry III… Reports appear to be contemporary reports of cases decided in the period around 1250 mainly in the Court of Common Pleas and at the eyres in the country.

Green, J. Samuel. A Mannor and Court Baron (Harleian MS. 6714) . Manorial Society’s Publications, 3. London: The Manorial Society, 1909.

Notes: Also available online in The Making of Modern Law (subscription database)Abstract: Reproduces the text of the Harleian MS. (No. 6714) in the British Museum.

Hale, Matthew. Pleas of the Crown, or, A Methodical Summary of the Principal Matters Relating to That Subject . London: Printed by the assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns Esquires, for William Shrewsbury … and John Leigh …, 1678.

Notes: 1682 and 1678 editions also available online in Early English Books Online; 1707 edition available in ECCO; 1716 edition available in Modern Economy (subscription databases)Abstract: An early treatise on criminal pleadings.

Hale, Matthew, and Sollom Emlyn, ed. Historia Placitorum Coronae. The History of the Pleas of the Crown. 2 Vols. London: Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling for F. Gyles , 1736.

Notes: 1800 and 1847 editions also available online in The Making of Modern Law; 1847 edition also available online in HeinOnline? (subscription databases)Abstract: An early treatise on pleadings.

Hengham, Ralph de, and William H. Dunham, ed. Radulphi De Hengham Summae. Ed. by William Huse Dunham . Cambridge Studies in English Legal History, 8. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932.

Abstract: Text in Latin. Hengham’s Summa Magna and Summa Parva are two little treatises on procedure, dealing with essoins, defaults, writs etc. Probably written before 1290. Hengham, Chief Justice of the king’s bench, died in 1311.

Kaye, J. M., ed. and trans. Placita Corone, or La Corone Pledee Devant Justices. Selden Society Supplementary Series, 4. London: Selden Society, 1966.

Abstract: A French treatise on various aspects of criminal law, with accompanying English translation. Concerned almost exclusively with proceedings in court, it “began its career as a set of detailed precedents for the conduct of appeals of felony in the king’s court: presumably, although this is nowhere stated, the court of justices of general eyre.” The date of the original manuscripts is uncertain, probably early fourteenth century. The earliest datable event cited in the text is 1274.

Kitchin, John, ed. Le Court Leete, Et Court Baron, Collect Per Iohn Kytchin De Greys Inne Vn Appre(n)Tice En Le Ley, Et Les Cases Et Matters Necessaries Pur Seneschals De Ceux Courts a Scier, Pur Les Students De Les Measons De Chauncerie. London: Richard Tottell, 1580.

Notes: The 1580, 1581, 1585, 1587, & 1592 editions also available online in Early English Books Online (subscription database)Abstract: Other titles: Retorna breuium; Retorna brevium; Returna brevium.

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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• Judicial Review (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Nuisance (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Negligence (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Law Making (in this legal Encyclopedia)