A Concise History of the Common Law. Theodore F. T. Plucknett

The footnotes to this history have been designed to place illustrative cases and statutes easily within the reach of readers. The Council of the Selden Society have kindly allowed me to reproduce a lengthy extract from one of their publications, and I hope that readers will be tempted to explore these and the other sources cited.

      It should be explained that the text and pagination of this fifth edition correspond entirely, both in the English issue by Messrs. Butterworth, and in the American issue by Messrs. Little, Brown and Company.

      My thanks are due once again to many friends who have discussed legal history and its teaching with me in a very helpful way, and to many English and American teachers who used the earlier editions and were kind enough to send me valuable suggestions. I am once again particularly grateful to Professor H. A. Hollond of Cambridge and Professor A. D. Hargreaves of Birmingham for their learned criticisms and interest, to Mr. K. Howard Drake for the Index, and to Messrs. Butterworth for their constant and sympathetic care in the production of this volume, and in the preparation of the Tables.

      T. F. T. P.

      LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS,

      July, 1956.

       TABLE OF MEDIAEVAL CASES

      SELECT CIVIL PLEAS (Selden Society):

      no. 1 (1200) 721

      no. 8 (1200) 477

      no. 17 (1200) 402

      no. 56 (1200) 529

      no. 59 (1200) 362

      no. 65 (1200) 722

      no. 76 (1201) 400

      no. 148 (1203) 540

      no. 167 (1203) 527

      no. 179 (1202) 417

      no. 183 (post 1205) 489

      no. 194 (1201?) 718

      CURIA REGIS ROLLS:

      ii. 181-182 (1203) 159, 477

      vii. 136, 179 (1214) 150, 677

      332 (1221) 166

      SELECT PLEAS OF THE CROWN

      (Selden Society):

      no. 28 (1202) 677

      no. 91 (1203) 144

      no. 115 (1214) 428

      no. 126 (n.d.) 476

      no. 157 (1221) 124

      no. 169 (1221) 453

      no. 170 (1221) 124

      no. 192 (1220) 121, 123

      LINCS. & WORCS. EYRE ROLLS

      (Selden Society, vol. 53):

      no. 908 (1219) 569

      GLOUCS., WARW. & SALOP. EYRE ROLLS

      (Selden Society, vol. 59):

      no. 77 (1221) 678

      no. 85 (1221) 472

      no. 100a (1221) 551

      no. 102 (1221) 571

      no. 127 (1221) 573

      no. 173 (1221) 540

      no. 187 (1221) 722

      no. 200 (1221) 577

      no. 227 (1221) 91

      no. 232 (1221) 423, 465, 718, 722

      no. 257 (1221) 567, 577

      no. 272 (1221) 573

      no. 290 (1221) 737

      no. 474 (1221) 360, 678

      no. 559 (1221) 569

      no. 560 (1221) 716

      no. 715 (1221) 166

      no. 728 (1221) 124

      no. 751 (1221) 120

      no. 767 (1221) 124

      no. 822 (1221) 120

      no. 832 (1221) 453

      no. 877 (1221) 125

      no. 977 (1221) 476

      no. 978 (1221) 449

      no. 1005 (1221) 431

      no. 1013 (1221) 577

      no. 1018 (1221) 573

      no. 1023 (1221) 567, 713

      no. 1073 (1221) 678

      no. 1080 (1221) 566

      no. 1090 (1221) 568

      no. 1159 (1221) 567

      no. 1184 (1221) 166

      no. 1239 (1221) 121, 484

      no. 1241 (1221) 453

      no. 1433 (1222) 567

      no. 1450 (1222) 534, 541

      no. 1458 (1222) 166

      no. 1459 (1222) 540

      no. 1477 (1222) 128, 401

      no. 1479 (1222) 551

      NORTHANTS ASSIZE ROLLS (ed. Stenton):

      no. 782 (1202) 156

      BRACTON’S NOTE BOOK (ed. Maitland):

      no. 21 (1219) 538

      no. 27 (1219) 678

      no. 36 (1219) 736

      no. 44 (1219) 720

      no. 54 (1219) 145

      no. 56 (1219) 678

      no. 67 (1219) 453

      no. 77 (1219) 618

      no. 86 (1220) 548, 560

      no. 157 (1222) 368

      no. 185 (1222) 117

      no.