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Institutes of the Lawes of England

Common Law Treatise, Sir Edward Coke (1628 to 1644)

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A four-part treatise on English law published between 1628 and 1644: the First Part (commonly Coke on Littleton) glosses the medieval land-law text Littleton's Tenures; the later parts cover the jurisdiction of courts, the statutes of the realm and criminal law. For centuries the standard reference on the English common law and hugely influential in colonial America.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Authored By: Sir Edward Coke
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