De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae
Libri Quinque 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)

9781108051651, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

846 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm, 1.22 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 Although he provided the first English translation of Bracton, Twiss's work has been criticised and since superseded.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 contains Book 1 and most of Book 2. These include the general introduction, the law of persons and most of the law of things.

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.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]