Bracton, on Law, Latin, London, 1569

Long Title:	Henrici de Bracton De legibus & consuetudinibus Angliæ libri quinq : in varios tractatus distincti, ad diuersorum et vetustissimorum codicum collationem, ingenti cura, nunc primū typis vulgati; quorum quid cuiq; insit, proxima pagina demonstrabit (Volume 1 of 1)
Author(s):	Henry de Bracton
Published:	London, 1569
Publisher:	apud Richardum Tottelum
Language:	English
Notes:	16 l., 444 (i.e. 442) numb. l. 31 cm.; Irregularities in foliation: no. 173-174 ommitted, l. 362 numbered 360, l. 439 numbered 437. At foot of title: Cum priuilegio.
Subject Classification:	Common Law
Format:	Folio
Purchase Location:	London
In 1825 Jefferson Manuscript Catalogue?	Yes, exact edition
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Bracton’s is the more valuable, because being written a very few years after the Magna charta, which commences what is called the Statute law, it gives us the state of the Common law in it’s ultimate form, and exactly at the point of division between the Common and Statute law. it is a most able work, complete in it’s matter, and luminous in it’s method.

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