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Identifier
KD 200 1572 .C6 A2 1600 pt.1
Creation Date
1600
Description
Coke, Edward. Les Reports de Edvvard Coke L'Attorney Generall le Roigne. Londini: in ædibus Thomæ Wight, 1600.
Perhaps the preeminent legal mind of his time, Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) reported English cases in a series of volumes that became arguably the most influential reports in English law. Coke’s Reports elevated precedence over general principles, firmly entrenching the concept in English common law. Never one to shy away from adding his own, characteristically brilliant, views in his reports, Coke opened himself to criticism from enemies and later commentators and charges of inaccuracy that were not wholly unfounded. After the first volume, displayed here, appeared in 1600, the series had reached 11 disparate volumes by 1615, with publishers later adding two posthumous volumes to the series in 1658 and 1659.
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