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• Book II: The Doctrines of English Law In the Early Middle Ages
• Chapter IV: Ownership and Possession
• Chapter V: Contract
• Chapter VI: Inheritance
• Chapter VII: Family Law
• Chapter VIII: Crime and Tort
• Chapter IX: Procedure
• Select Bibliography and Notes.
• I.
• (1): Original Sources.
• (2): Institutional Studies.
• II.
• (1): the Real Actions.
• (2): the Personal Actions.
• (3): Procedure.

I.

(1)

Original Sources.

(Supplementing the rubrics “Collections of ancient laws and documents,” “Judicial records,” “Law books” and “Law reports,” in the List of Texts Used, vol. I, pp. xxv ff., above)

Ancient Laws and Law Books.

Anglo-Saxon laws, etc.:

• (a) F. Liebermann, Die Gesetze des Angelsachsen (Halle, 1903-1916), 3 vols.
• (b) F. L. Attenborough, The Laws of the Earliest English Kings (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1922).
• (c) A. J. Robertson, The Laws of the Kings of England from Edmund to Henry I (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1925).

Bracton:

• (a) ed. G. E. Woodbine (Yale Univ. Press, 1915-1942), 4 vols.
• (b) S. E. Thorne has an edition in progress, reprinting Woodbine’s text but with a translation and other apparatus. It will be published by the Harvard Univ. Press in association with the Selden Society, and the first two volumes are expected shortly.
• (c) For Bractonian studies see H. G. Richardson, Bracton, The Problem of his Text (Seld. Soc. Supp. Series, vol. 2, 1965), and its bibliography.
• Brevia Placitata, ed. G. J. Turner and T. F. T. Plucknett (Seld. Soc., vol. 66 for 1947). See Professor Plucknett’s preface for the story of this important volume, and for the reasons why Maitland was able to cite the earlier portions by page.
• Casus Placitorum, ed. W. H. Dunham (Seld. Soc., vol. 69 for 1950).
• “Consuetudines Diversarum Curiarum,” ed. H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles in Select Cases of Procedure without Writ under Henry III (Seld. Soc., vol. 60 for 1941), Appendix II, text at pp. cxcv–cciii.
• “Exceptiones ad Cassandum Brevia,” ed. G. E. Woodbine, in Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale Univ. Press, 1910).
• “Fer Asaver,” ed. G. E. Woodbine, in Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts (Yale Univ. Press, 1910).
• Fleta, ed. H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles (Seld. Soc., vol. 72 for 1953), Prologue and Books i and ii; remainder in progress.

Glanvill:

• (a) ed. G. E. Woodbine (Yale Univ. Press, 1932); useful notes.
• (b) ed. G. D. G. Hall (Nelson, in association with Seld. Soc., 1965); a definitive edition with translation.
• Hengham, ed. W. H. Dunham (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1932).
• “Judicium Essoniorum,” ed. G. E. Woodbine, in Four Thirteenth Century Tracts (Yale Univ. Press, 1910).
• “Modus Componendi Brevia,” ed. G. E. Woodbine, in Four Thirteenth Century Tracts (Yale Univ. Press, 1910).
• Novae Narrationes, ed. E. Shanks and S. F. C. Milsom (Seld. Soc., vol. 80 for 1963).
• Placita Corone, ed. J. M. Kaye (Seld. Soc. Supp. Series, vol. 4, 1966).

Records of Royal Courts to the Late Thirteenth Century.

• Curia Regis Rolls (H.M.S.O., 1922-1961), vols. 1-14; work on further volumes in progress.
• “Curia Regis Rolls for Hilary 7 Ric. I and Easter 9 Ric. I,” ed. R. Allen Brown, in Memoranda Roll, 10 John (Pipe Roll Soc., New Series, vol. 31, 1955), pp. 69-118.
• Pleas before the King or his Justices, 1198-1212, ed. D. M. Stenton (Seld. Soc., vols. 67 for 1948, 68 for 1949, 83 for 1966, 84 for 1967).
• Rolls of the Justices in Eyre at Bedford, 1202, ed. G. H. Fowler (Publications of Bedford-shire Historical Record Soc., vol. 1 for 1913), pp. 133-247.
• Earliest Lincolnshire Assize Rolls, 1202-1209, ed. D. M. Stenton (Lincoln Record Soc., vol. 22, 1926).
• Earliest Northamptonshire Assize Rolls, 1202 and 1203, ed. D. M. Stenton (Northamptonshire Record Soc., vol. 5, 1930).
• Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Lincolnshire, 1218-1219, and Worcestershire, 1221, ed. D. M. Stenton (Seld. Soc., vol. 53 for 1934).
• Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Yorkshire, 1218-1219, ed. D. M. Stenton (Seld. Soc., vol. 56 for 1937).
• Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire [Shropshire], 1221, 1222, ed. D. M. Stenton (Seld. Soc., vol. 59 for 1940).
• “Two Thirteenth Century Assize Rolls for the County of Durham” (27 and 53 Henry III.), ed. K. C. Bayley, in Miscellanea (Surtees Soc., vol. 127, 1916), pp. 1-105.
• Placita Coram Domino Rege, 1297, ed. W. P. W. Phillimore and E. A. Fry (British Record Soc., 1898).
• A Lincolnshire Assize Roll for 1298, ed. W. S. Thomson (Lincoln Record Soc., vol. 36 for 1939).
• Three Yorkshire Assize Rolls for the Reigns of King John and King Henry III, ed. C. T. Clay (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., vol. 44 for 1910); in translation only.
• Rolls of the Justices in Eyre at Bedford, 1227, ed. G. H. Fowler (Publications of Bedford-shire Historical Record Soc., vol. 3 for 1916), pp. 1-206; in translation only. Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre, 1249, ed. C. A. F. Meekings (Wiltshire Archaeological Soc., Records Branch, vol. 16 for 1960); in translation only.
• Select Pleas of the Forest, ed. G. J. Turner (Seld. Soc., vol. 13 for 1899).
• Select Cases in the Exchequer of Pleas, ed. H. Jenkinson and B. Formoy (Seld. Soc., vol. 48 for 1931).
• Select Cases of Procedure without Writ under Henry III, ed. H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles (Seld. Soc., vol. 60 for 1941).
• Select Cases in the Court of King’s Bench under Edward I, ed. G. O. Sayles (Seld. Soc., vol. 55 for 1936; vol. 57 for 1938; vol. 58 for 1939).
• State Trials of Edward I, 1289-1293, ed. T. F. Tout and H. Johnstone (Camden, 3rd Ser. vol. 9, Royal Historical Soc., 1906).

Records of Local Courts to the Early Fourteenth Century.

• Alrewas Court Rolls, 1259-1261, 1268-1269, 1272-1273, ed. W. N. Landor (Wm. Salt Archaeological Soc., New Series, vol. 10, 1907), pp. 245-293; (3rd ser. vol. for 1910), pp. 87-137.
• Court Roll of Chalgrave Manor, 1278-1313, ed. M. K. Dale (Bedfordshire Historical Record Soc., vol. 28 for 1948).
• Court Rolls of the Manor of Hales, 1270-1307, ed. J. Amphlett, S. G. Hamilton, R. A. Wilson (Worcestershire Historical Soc., Part I, 1910; Part II, 1912; Part III, 1933).
• Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield, from 1274, ed. W. P. Baildon, J. Lister, J. W. Walker (Yorkshire Archaeological Soc., vol. 29 for 1900; vol. 36 for 1906; vol. 57 for 1917; vol. 78 for 1930; vol. 109 for 1944).
• Court Rolls of the Manor of Ingoldmells, ed. W. O. Massingberd (Spottiswoode, 1902).
• Court Rolls of the Abbey of Ramsey and of the Honor of Clare, ed. W. O. Ault (Yale Univ. Press, 1928).
• “Extracts from Court Book” (St. Albans), in A. E. Levett, Studies in Manorial History (Oxford Univ. Press, 1938), p. 300.
• Records of the Barony and Honour of the Rape of Lewes, ed. A. J. Taylor (Sussex Record Soc., 1940).
• Rolls of Highworth Hundred, 1275-1287, ed. B. Farr (Wiltshire Archaeological Soc., vol. 21 for 1965; vol. 22 for 1966.
• Rolls from the Office of the Sheriff of Beds. and Bucks, 1332-1334, ed. G. H. Fowler (Bedfordshire Historical Record Soc., quarto memoirs vol. 3, 1929).
• “Extracts from Rolls of County Court of Cornwall, 7 Ed. III,” in W. A. Morris, The Early English County Court (Univ. of California Press, 1926), pp. 181 ff.
• Calendar of County Court, City Court and Eyre Rolls of Chester, 1259-1297, ed. R. Stewart-Brown (Chetham Soc., New Series vol. 84, 1925).
• Selected Rolls of the Chester City Courts, ed. A. Hopkins (Chetham Soc., 3rd Ser. vol. 2, 1950).
• Calendar of Early Mayor’s Court Rolls of the City of London, 1298-1307, ed. A. H. Thomas (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1924).
• Calendar of Plea and Memoranda Rolls of the City of London, 1323-1364, ed. A. H. Thomas (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1926).
• Select Cases on the Law Merchant, vol. 1, ed. C. Gross (Seld. Soc., vol. 23 for 1908).

Early Year Books.

• Casus Placitorum, ed. W. H. Dunham (Seld. Soc., vol. 69 for 1950), contains two collections of cases of Year Book type from the early years of Edward I, some twenty years earlier than the earliest Year Books previously known. It contains also, pp. lxxv–lxxxiv, Latin notes under the title Casus et Judicia, largely made from plea rolls of 1252-1256; and, pp. lxxxv–lxxxix, extracts from a students’ work-book of late Edward I.
• Year Books of Edward II. The Selden Society Series, which now runs to twenty-five volumes and is still in progress, was started by Maitland, but not until this book was finished.

(2)

Institutional Studies.

General Accounts.

• C. T. Flower, Introduction to the Curia Regis Rolls, 1199-1230 (Seld. Soc., vol. 62 for 1944).
• W. S. Holdsworth, History of English Law, vol. 1 (7th ed. 1956), with an introductory essay by S. B. Chrimes; vol. 2 (4th ed., 1936).
• T. F. T. Plucknett, Concise History of the Common Law (5th ed. Butterworth, 1956). T. F. T. Plucknett, Legislation of Edward I (Oxford Univ. Press, 1949). H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, The Governance of Medieval England (Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1963).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Law and Legislation (Edinburgh Univ. Press, 1966).
• D. M. Stenton, English Justice between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter (American Philosophical Soc. and Allen & Unwin, 1965).
• R. C. van Caenegem, Royal Writs in England from the Conquest to Glanvill (Seld. Soc., vol. 77 for 1958-1959).
• F. J. West, The Justiciarship in England (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1966).

Local and Private Courts and Officials.

• W. O. Ault, Private Jurisdiction in England (Yale Univ. Press, 1923).
• H. M. Cam, Studies in the Hundred Rolls (Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, vol. 6, Oxford Univ. Press, 1921).
• H. M. Cam, The Hundred and the Hundred Rolls (Methuen, 1930).
• H. M. Cam, Liberties and Communities in Medieval England (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1944; reprinted with some corrections, Merlin, 1963). A convenient collection of Dr. Cam’s major articles down to 1942.
• H. M. Cam, Law-Finders and Law-Makers in Medieval England (Merlin, 1962). A collection of articles after 1942.
• H. M. Cam, “Shire Officials: Coroners, Constables and Bailiffs,” in The English Government at Work 1327-1336, vol. 3 (Medieval Academy of America, 1950).
• H. A. Cronne, “The Office of Local Justiciar in England under the Norman Kings,” University of Birmingham Historical Journal, 6 (1957-1958), p. 18.
• J. P. Dawson, A History of Lay Judges (Harvard Univ. Press, 1960), pp. 178 ff.
• N. Denholm-Young, Seignorial Administration in England (Oxford Univ. Press, 1937).
• J. Goebel, Felony and Misdemeanour (Commonwealth Fund, 1937).
• R. F. Hunnisett, The Medieval Coroner (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1961).
• N. D. Hurnard, “The Anglo-Norman Franchises,” English Historical Review, 64 (1949), pp. 289, 433.
• G. T. Lapsley, “Buzones,” English Historical Review, 47 (1932), pp. 177, 545; and in Crown, Community and Parliament (Blackwell, 1951), p. 63.
• G. T. Lapsley, “The Court, Record and Roll of the County in the Thirteenth Century,” Law Quarterly Review, 51 (1935), p. 299.
• W. A. Morris, The Frankpledge System (New York, 1910).
• W. A. Morris, The Early English County Court (Univ. of California Press, 1926).
• W. A. Morris, The Medieval English Sheriff (Manchester Univ. Press, 1927).
• W. A. Morris, “The Sheriff,” in The English Government at Work, 1327-1336, vol. 2 (Medieval Academy of America, 1947).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, The Governance of Medieval England (already cited).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Law and Legislation (already cited).

Eyres.

• W. C. Bolland, The General Eyre (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1922).
• W. C. Bolland, The Eyre of Kent (Seld. Soc., vol. 24 for 1909; vol. 27 for 1912; vol. 29 for 1913).
• W. C. Bolland, Select Bills in Eyre (Seld. Soc., vol. 30 for 1914). But see below, p. 722, under “Procedure.”
• H. M. Cam, Studies in the Hundred Rolls (already cited).
• H. M. Cam, “The Marshalsy of the Eyre” and “The General Eyres of 1329-1330,” reprinted in Liberties and Communities (already cited).
• H. M. Cam: an edition of the Year Books and other sources relating to the eyre of London of 1321 will shortly be published by the Selden Society.
• W. T. Reedy, “The Origins of the General Eyre in the Reign of Henry I,” Speculum, 41 (1966), p. 688.
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Select Cases of Procedure without Writ (already cited), pp. xxvi ff.
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, The Governance of Medieval England (already cited).
• H. G. Richardson, “Richard FitzNeal and the Dialogus de Scaccario,” English Historical Review, 43 (1928), pp. 161, 321.
• D. M. Stenton, English Justice (already cited). D. M. Stenton, introductions to the editions of plea rolls listed under “Original Sources” above, especially Pleas before the King or his Justices, vol. 3 (Seld. Soc., vol. 83 for 1966), Appendix I.
• D. W. Sutherland, Quo Warranto Proceedings in the Reign of Edward I (Oxford Univ. Press, 1963).
• F. J. West, The Justiciarship in England (already cited).

Benches and Judicial Aspect of Exchequer.

• H. Jenkinson and B. Formoy, Select Cases in the Exchequer of Pleas (Seld. Soc., vol. 48 for 1931).
• N. Neilson, “The Court of Common Pleas” in The English Government at Work, 1327-1336, vol. 3 (Medieval Academy of America, 1950), p. 259. There is no study of the Common Bench as such for an earlier period. For a later period see M. Hastings, The Court of Common Pleas (Cornell Univ. Press, 1947).
• H. G. Richardson, The Memoranda Roll for the Michaelmas Term of 1 John (Pipe Roll Soc., New Series, vol. 21, 1943).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Law and Legislation (already cited).
• G. O. Sayles, Select Cases in the Court of King’s Bench, vol. 1 (Seld. Soc., vol. 55 for 1936), pp. xi ff.; vol. 2 (Seld. Soc., vol. 57 for 1938), esp. pp. xxxiv ff.; vol. 4 (Seld. Soc., vol. 74 for 1955), pp. xxvi ff.
• D. M. Stenton, English Justice (already cited).
• D. M. Stenton, Pleas before the King or his Justices (already cited), vols. 1 and 3.
• G. J. Turner, Brevia Placitata (already cited).
• G. J. Turner, Year Books 3 & 4 Edward II (Seld. Soc., vol. 22 for 1907), pp. xxi ff.
• F. J. West, The Justiciarship in England (already cited).

Profession and Literature (See alsoAncient Laws and Law BooksunderOriginal Sourcesabove).

• H. Cohen, History of the English Bar (Sweet & Maxwell, 1929).
• W. H. Dunham, Casus Placitorum (already cited). The introduction is concerned with the beginnings of reporting and refers to most other work about the origins of the Year Books.
• W. S. Holdsworth, History of English Law, vol. 2 (4th ed. Methuen, 1936).
• W. S. Holdsworth, Sources and Literature of English Law (Oxford Univ. Press, 1925).
• S. F. C. Milsom, introduction to Novae Narrationes (already cited), pp. xxv ff.
• T. F. T. Plucknett, Early English Legal Literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1958).
• T. F. T. Plucknett, The Medieval Bailiff (Athlone Press, 1954), pp. 14-16.
• G. O. Sayles, Select Cases in the Court of King’s Bench (already cited), vol. 1, esp. pp. xci ff.; vol. 5, esp. pp. xxix ff.; vol. 6, esp. pp. xxvii ff.
• D. M. Stenton, English Justice (already cited), esp. pp. 54 ff.
• D. M. Stenton, Pleas before the King or his Justices (already cited), vol. 3, pp. ccxcv ff.
• S. E. Thorne, “The Early History of the Inns of Court,” Graya, 50 (1959), p. 79.
• G. J. Turner, Year Books 3 & 4 Edward II (already cited), pp. xv ff., xli ff.
• G. J. Turner, Year Books 4 Edward II (Seld. Soc., vol. 42 for 1925), pp. lvi ff.
• P. H. Winfield, The Chief Sources of English Legal History (Harvard Univ. Press, 1925).
• G. E. Woodbine, Glanvill (already cited), pp. 262 ff.
• Criminal Administration and Law (See alsoLocal and Private Courts etc., above).
• E. de Haas, Antiquities of Bail (Columbia Univ. Press, 1940).
• A. Harding, “The Origins and Early History of the Keeper of the Peace,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th Ser. 10 (1960), p. 85. For the later development of the justices of the peace, the starting-point is B. H. Putnam, Proceedings before the Justices of the Peace in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (Ames Foundation, 1938).
• L. C. Gabel, Benefit of Clergy in England in the later Middle Ages (Smith College Studies in History, 1928-1929).
• J. Goebel, Felony and Misdemeanour (already cited).
• W. S. Holdsworth, History of English Law (already cited), vol. 2, pp. 43 ff.; vol. 3, pp. 276 ff.
• R. F. Hunnisett, The Medieval Coroner (already cited).
• N. D. Hurnard, “The Jury of Presentment and the Assize of Clarendon,” English Historical Review, 56 (1941), p. 374.
• J. M. Kaye, Placita Corone (already cited).
• C. A. F. Meekings, Crown Pleas of the Wiltshire Eyre (already cited).
• T. F. T. Plucknett, Edward I and Criminal Law (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1960).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, The Governance of Medieval England (already cited).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Law and Legislation (already cited).
• G. O. Sayles, Select Cases in the Court of King’s Bench (already cited), vol. 2, pp. xxxv ff.; vol. 3, pp. liv ff., lxxii ff., lxxvi ff.; vol. 4, pp. xxxv ff.
• D. M. Stenton, English Justice (already cited).
• D. M. Stenton, Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Lincolnshire and Worcestershire (already cited), pp. lxix ff.
• D. M. Stenton, Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Yorkshire (already cited), pp. xl ff.
• D. M. Stenton, Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire (already cited), pp. lviii ff.

Jury Proceedings (The following references are in addition to those listed under Criminal Administration and Law, above, andThe Real Actions, below).

• C. T. Flower, Introduction to the Curia Regis Rolls (already cited).
• W. S. Holdsworth, History of English Law (already cited), vol. 1.
• R. Lennard, “Early Manorial Juries,” English Historical Review, 77 (1962), p. 511.
• T. F. T. Plucknett, Concise History of the Common Law (already cited), pp. 106 ff. The account of the jury was largely rewritten for the 5th edition.
• R. C. van Caenegem, Royal Writs in England (already cited).

Legislation (See alsoAncient Laws and Law Books, above)

• J. C. Holt, Magna Carta (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1965).
• T. F. T. Plucknett, The Legislation of Edward I (already cited).
• T. F. T. Plucknett, Statutes and their Interpretation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1922).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, “The Early Statutes,” Law Quarterly Review, 50 (1934), pp. 201, 540 (reprinted Stevens, 1934).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, The Governance of Medieval England (already cited).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Law and Legislation (already cited).
• G. O. Sayles, Select Cases in the Court of King’s Bench (already cited), vol. 3, pp. xi ff.

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.

• N. Adams, “The Writ of Prohibition to Court Christian,” Minnesota Law Review, 20 (1935-1936), p. 272.
• N. Adams, “The Judicial Conflict over Tithes,” English Historical Review, 52 (1937), p. 1.
• N. Adams is working on a volume of cases in ecclesiastical courts, to be published by the Selden Society.
• C. R. Cheney, “The Punishment of Felonous Clerks,” English Historical Review, 51 (1936), p. 215.
• G. B. Flahiff, “The Use of Prohibitions by Clerics against Ecclesiastical Courts in England,” Mediaeval Studies (Pontifical Institute of Toronto), iii (1941), p. 101.
• G. B. Flahiff, “The Writ of Prohibition to Court Christian in the Thirteenth Century,” Mediaeval Studies (Pontifical Institute of Toronto), iv (1944), p. 261; vii (1945), p. 229.
• C. T. Flower, Introduction to the Curia Regis Rolls (already cited), pp. 99 ff.
• L. C. Gabel, Benefit of Clergy in the Later Middle Ages (already cited).
• E. B. Graves, “Circumspecte Agatis,” English Historical Review, 43 (1928), p. 1.
• J. W. Gray, “The Ius Praesentandi in England from the Constitutions of Clarendon to Bracton,” English Historical Review, 67 (1952), p. 481.
• E. G. Kimball, “The Judicial Aspects of Frank Almoign Tenure,” English Historical Review, 47 (1932), p. 1.
• F. D. Logan, Excommunication and the Secular Arm in Medieval England (Pontifical Institute of Toronto, 1968).
• S. F. C. Milsom in Novae Narrationes (already cited), pp. cxcviii ff.
• M. M. Morgan, “Early Canterbury Jurisdiction,” English Historical Review, 60 (1945), p. 392.
• C. Morris, “William I and the Church Courts,” English Historical Review, 82 (1967), p. 449.
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, The Governance of Medieval England (already cited).
• H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Law and Legislation (already cited).
• G. O. Sayles, Select Cases in the Court of King’s Bench (already cited), vol. 3, p. lxxiv.
• M. M. Sheehan, The Will in Medieval England (Pontifical Institute of Toronto, 1963).
• S. E. Thorne, “The Assize Utrum and Canon Law in England,” Columbia Law Review, 33 (1933), p. 426.
• B. L. Woodcock, Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts in the Diocese of Canterbury (Oxford Univ. Press, 1952).