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(2): Institutional Studies. - Sir Frederick Pollock, The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, vol. 2 [1898]

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The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I. Reprint of 2nd edition, with a Select Bibliography and Notes by Professor S.F. Milsom. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010). Vol. 2.

Part of: The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, 2 vols.

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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).

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