De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae 6 Volume Set
Libri uinque in Varios Tractatus Distincti

This six-volume edition and translation of the important thirteenth-century legal treatise known as Bracton was published between 1878 and 1883.

Henry de Bracton (Author), Travers Twiss (Edited by)

9781108051712, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 15 November 2012

4598 pages
48.4 x 35 x 18.5 cm, 7.94 kg

The thirteenth-century Latin legal treatise best known as Bracton is now thought to be the work of several hands, and Henry de Bracton (d.1268) to have been only the last of these. Work began on it in the 1230s and largely ceased in the early 1250s, but the treatise - an ambitious survey of English law - was never finished. Between 1878 and 1883, the scholar and jurist Sir Travers Twiss (1809–97) edited and published this work in six volumes for the Rolls Series. His text was mainly based on the first printed edition of 1569. Although he provided the first English translation of Bracton, Twiss's work has been criticised and since superseded.

Volume 1: Introduction
List of manuscripts collated or referred to
Preface to the edition of 1569
Table of contents of chapters
On the division of things - Book I
On acquiring the dominion of things, Book II, as far as Chapter XXXVI
Index. Volume 2: Introduction
Table of contents of chapters
Of acquiring the dominion of things
Of actions
Of the crown
Articles of the eyre, 2 Edward I
Articles of the eyre, 3 Edward I
Plea-roll, 18 Henry III
Index. Volume 3: Introduction
Table of the contents of the chapters
Of assises of novel disseysine, Book IV - Treatise I
Index. Volume 4: Introduction
Table of the contents of chapters
Of an assise of last presentation, Book IV - Treatise II
Of an assise of mortdancester, Book IV - Treatise III
Of a writ of cosinage, Book IV - Treatise IV
Of an assise of utrum, Book IV - Treatise V
Of an action for dower, Book IV - Treatise VI
Index. Volume 5: Introduction
Table of the contents of chapters
Of an action of entry, Book IV - Treatise VII
Of a writ of right, Book V - Treatise I
Of essoins, Book V - Treatise II
Of defaults, Book V - Treatise III
Index. Volume 6: Introduction
Table of the contents of chapters
Of warranty - Book V, Treatise IV
Of exceptions - Book V, Treatise V
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]