de Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae - Volume 4 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108051682)

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 Although he provided the first English translation of Bracton, Twiss's work has been criticised and since superseded.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 4 contains the second part of Book 4. It covers the assizes of darrein presentment, mort d'ancestor and utrum, and related actions and litigation about dower.

Author: Henry de Bracton
ISBN-10: 1108051685
ISBN-13: 9781108051682
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2012
Pages: 798
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.53lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.76d