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KD 600 .B74 1640

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1640

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Britton: The Second Edition. London: Printed by the Assignes of John Moore Esquire, 1640.

The treatise in Law French known as Britton (c. 1290) has at times been attributed to John le Breton (d. 1275), bishop of Hereford, though serious doubt is cast on his authorship on account of the work’s references to statutes enacted years after his death. English jurist John Selden believed the bishop may have been confused with Henry de Bracton, supposed author of the treatise De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, of which Britton may be considered in part an epitome. The origins of Britton may be traced to a project of Edward I to produce a digest of the English law in the spirit of Justinian's Institutes. The first edition was published in London in the early 1530s, with a second edition, edited by Edmund Wingate, not appearing until 1640.

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