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Identifier
KD 600 .B7 1640
Creation Date
1640
Description
Bratton, Henry of. Henrici de Bracton De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae. London: Typis Milonis Flesher & Roberti Young, Assign.: Johannis More Armig., 1640.
A foundational work of the English common law, De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (On the Laws and Customs of England) was composed in stages between the 1220s and 1260s by a group of three justices of the royal courts, Martin of Pattishall, William of Raleigh, and Henry of Bratton. Tradition has erroneously assigned sole authorship of the treatise to the last of these justices, giving rise to the work’s more common name, Bracton. First printed by Richard Tottell in 1569, after which the work experienced a resurgence in interest, it ultimately only saw one additional edition, in 1640, during the initial period of English law book printing.
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