Justices in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Edward I of England

Justices under Special Commission

Justices and Medieval Law

Justices and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Cantle, Albert, ed. The Pleas of Quo Warranto for the County of Lancaster. Chetham Society; Remains, historical and literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester, 98. Manchester: Chetham Society, 1938.

Illingworth, William, ed. Placita De Quo Warranto Temporibus Edw. I., II., and III. in Curia Receptae Scaccarij Westm. Asservata. London: Eyre and Strahan, 1818.

Abstract: Transcript of most of the quo warranto proceedings resulting from the survey previously taken and recorded in the Rotuli Hundredorum, these are pleas regarding various franchises and liberties heard before Justices in Eyre, mainly after 1278.

Wrottesley, George, and William Salt Archaeological Society, ed. Collections for a History of Staffordshire. William Salt Archaeological Society, 3, 4, 5 pt.1, 6 pt.1, 7, 9 – 17; n.s., 3, 4, 6. London: Harrison and Sons, 1882-1996.

Abstract: Vol. 6, pt.1, Staffordshire pleas of Henry III from manuscripts in the British Museum, and extracts from the plea rolls, AD 1272-1294; includes extracts from civil pleas, quo warranto proceedings, plaints and kalendar (all from the Rex roll) and from crown pleas and gaol delivery (taken from the chief justice’s roll) for the 1293 Staffordshire eyre, 211-89.

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

• List of Medieval Laws (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Economic Torts (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Pleading (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Medieval Punishment (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Torture (in this legal Encyclopedia)