The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown and Criminal Causes [Hardcover]

Edward Coke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 3, 2001 | ISBN-10: 1584772018 | ISBN-13: 978-1584772019

Reprint of the last and best edition with Butler and Hargrave's notes, and with mistakes corrected from the 1681 folio edition. Originally published: London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, 1817. [xii], 244, [21] pp. Paging irregular; star-paged to 1681 folio edition. Coke's Institutes are virtually a legal encyclopedia and considered the first textbooks on the modern common law.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Coke's Third Institutes gives us a Treatise of great learning, and
not unworthy the hand that produced it;... Having run over all
criminal matters, and their legal punishments, he concludes with the
nature of pardons and restitutions; showing how far, in each of these,
our Kings can process alone, and where they want the assistance and
joint power of the Parliaments. --Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 208

If Bracton first began the codification of the common law, it was Coke who completed it.... In the Institutes, ... the tradition of the common law from Bracton to Littleton, whose name Coke's commentary made famous, firmly established itself as the basis of the constitution of the Realm. --Printing and the Mind of Man 126

About the Author

Edward Coke [1552-1643] was considered to be the greatest legal practitioner of his day.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. (December 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584772018
• ISBN-13: 978-1584772019
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 1 inches
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