Palatine Courts under Edward Ii in United Kingdom

This issue under the Ruling of King Edward II of England

Palatine Courts under Edward II and Medieval Law

Palatine Courts under Edward II and Legal History

Legal Materials

(Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Farrer, William, ed. Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids. 3 Vols . Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Series, 48, 54, 70. Liverpool: Printed for the Record Society by W. Barton, 1903-1915.

Abstract: Text in English. Contents: Pt. 1, 1205-1307; Pt. 2, 1310-1333; Pt. 3, 1313-1355.

Hopkins, A., ed. Selected Rolls of the Chester City Courts, Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, 3d ser., 2. Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1950.

Abstract: Text in Latin

Selby, Walford D. Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London : in Two Parts . Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Series, 7, 8. London: Printed for the Record Society (by) Wyman, 1882-1883.

Abstract: Pt. 1 gives class lists of these records. Pt. 2 calendars and indexes charters, inquests post mortem, pleas, feet of fines, etc.

EDWARD II (Edw 2) et seq.

Booth, George, and George Hill , eds. The Nature and Practice of Real Actions in Their Writs and Process, Both Original and Judicial: Together With Some Records in the Court Before the Justice of the County Palatine of Chester, Proving the Antiquity of the Jurisdiction of That Court, and of Some Families. 19th-century Legal Treatises, 56641-56645. London: W. Clarke and Sons, 1811.

Notes: Available online in The Making of Modern Law (subscription database)Abstract: Contains a considerable number of 14th and 15th century cases in the Chester Palatine Court.

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

• Estates (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Conversion (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Magna Carta (in this legal Encyclopedia)
• Medieval Laws (in this legal Encyclopedia)