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Identifier
KD 7869 .S7 1583
Creation Date
1583
Description
Staunford, William. Les Plees del Coron. London: in aedibus Richardi Tottelli, 1583.
Les Plees del Coron, a treatise based largely on Bracton and the Year Books, presents the first cohesive overview of English criminal law. While lacking somewhat in clarity and style, it enjoyed an impressive reputation. William Staunford (1509–1558) included appropriate legal authority for each premise, a first in a textbook, and profoundly shaped subsequent works. This copy is bound with a 1590 edition of An Exposition of the Kinges Praerogatiue (1567), in which Staunford systematically examines and explains the Statute de Prerogativa.
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