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SELDEN SOCIETY
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Volumes 1-125 (1887-2008)

 

The Selden Society, Annual Series, is recommended by the American Association of Law Schools for inclusion in the basic minimum Legal History Collection. See A.A.L.S Low Books Recommended for Libraries, List #25 (Legal History) page 26, "A" Rated.

A.A.L.S. Comments... this series includes the printing of manuscripts, new editions, and translations of works having an important bearing on English Legal History. The introductions to the individual volumes also contain very important scholarship on the history of English Law.

This Annual Series has long been recognized as one of the most valuable research sources for the study of the history of English Law.

The Selden Society was founded in 1887, largely by the efforts of F.W. Maitland, "to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of English law." Its principal achievement has been the publication of its annual series, now numbering 125 volumes. In these volumes are edited and printed for the first time the essential source materials of the common law: law reports going back to the middle ages (the year books series), plea rolls and courts' records, eyre rolls of itinerant justices, select leading cases in the courts of King's Bench, Chancery, Star Chamber, Admiralty, Requests, Exchequer Chamber, and Privy Council; and in local, manorial, ecclesiastical, and mercantile courts. Select charters of trading companies, borough customs, and records of public works show the development of business enterprise and local government. Professional literature, early treatises, formularies, judges' notebooks, lecturers' readings, and students' moots show the development of the legal profession, early legal education, the inns of court, and their teaching methods.

The series comprises most of the source-material for the history of the common law that has ever been printed. The original manuscript texts are carefully transcribed; and if in Latin or French, a modem translation is normally provided on the facing page. The contents of each volume are explained and discussed in its introduction; and these introductions therefore represent much of the research and scholarship that has been devoted over the past hundred years to the development of the common law and its institutions. For the library of any law school which seeks to pursue in depth the study of our unique system of Anglo-American law, this set is a must.

Guide to the Annual Series: In 1987, to mark its centennial, the Society published its Centenary Guide. This volume gives a full description of all its publications, including the contents and introductions of every annual volume down to Vol. 102. It also gives a short history of the Society, its officers and work, during its first century. The Centenary Guide has indexes of names and of subjects. It is therefore the key to the whole set.

 

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Volume 1, for 1887. SELECT PLEAS OF THE CROWN. Volume 1, A.D. 1200-1225. Edited, from the rolls preserved in the Public Record Office by Professor F.W. Maitland. with Facsimile.
Volume 2, for 1888. SELECT PLEAS IN MANORIAL AND OTHER SEIGNORIAL COURTS. Volume I,Henry III and Edward I. Edited, from the earlier rolls extant, by Professor F.W. Maitland.
Volume 3, for 1889. SELECT CIVIL PLEAS. Volume I, A.D. 1200-1203. Edited, from the Plea Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, by W. Paley Baildon, F.S.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
Volume 4, for 1890. THE COURT BARON: PRECEDENTS OF PLEADING IN MANORIAL AND OTHER LOCAL COURTS. Edited, from MSS. of the 14th and 15th Centuries, by Professor F.W. Maitland and W. Paley Baildon, F.S.A.
Volume 5, for 1891. THE LEET JURISDICTION IN THE CITY OF NORWICH. Edited, from the Leet Rolls of the 13th and 14th Centuries in the possession of the Corporation, by the Rev. W. Hudson, M.A. With Map and Facsimile.
Volume 6, for 1892. SELECT PLEAS OF THE COURT OF ADMIRALTY. Volume I, A.D. 1390-1404 and A.D. 1527-1545. Edited by Reginald G. Marsden, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. See also Volume 11 for 1897.
Volume 7, 1893. THE MIRROR OF JUSTICES. Edited, with a new translation, by W.J. Whittaker, M.A., and Professor F.W. Maitland.
Volume 8, for 1894. SELECT PASSAGES FROM BRACTON AND AZO. Edited by Professor F.W. Maitland.
Volume 9 for 1895. SELECT CASES FROM THE CORONERS ROLLS, A.D. 1265-1413. Edited, from the rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, by Professor Charles Gross, Professor of History, Harvard University.
Volume 10, for 1896. SELECT CASES IN CHANCERY, A.D. 1364-1471. Edited, from the files preserved in the Public Record Office, by W. Paley Baildon, F.S.A.
Volume 11, for 1897. SELECT PLEAS OF THE COURT OF ADMIRALTY. Volume II, A.D. 1547-1602. Edited by Reginald G. Marsden, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. This volume continues Volume 6 for 1892.
Volume 12, for 1898. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF REQUESTS, A.D. 1497-1569. Edited, from the rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, by I.S. Leadam, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
Volume 13, for 1899. SELECT PLEAS OF THE FOREST. Edited, from the Forest Eyre Rolls and other MSS. in the Public Record Office and British Museum, by G.J. Turner, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
Volume 14, for 1900. BEVERLEY TOWN DOCUMENTS. Edited by Arthur F. Leach, Barrister-at-Law, Assistant Charity Commissioner.
Volume 15, for 1901. SELECT PLEAS, STARRS, etc., OF THE JEWISH EXCHEQUER, A.D. 1220-1284. Edited, from the rolls in the Public Record Office, by J.M. Rigg, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
Volume 16, for 1902. SELECT PLEAS OF THE COURT OF STAR CHAMBER. 1477-1509. Volume I, Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by I.S. Leadam, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. See also Volume II, published as Volume 25 for 1910.
Volume 17, for 1903. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume I. YEAR BOOKS OF 1 AND 2 EDWARD II (A.D. 1307-1308 AND 1308-1309). Edited by Professor F.W. Maitland.
Volume 18, for 1904. BOROUGH CUSTOMS. Volume I. Edited by Miss Mary Bateson, Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. See also Volume II, published as Volume 21 for 1906.
Volume 19, for 1904. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume II. YEAR BOOKS OF 2 AND 3 EDWARD II (A.D. 1308-1309 and 1309-1310). Edited by Professor F.W. Maitland. Volume I was published as Volume 17 for 1903.
Volume 20, 1905. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume III. YEAR BOOKS OF 3 EDWARD II (A.D. 1309-1310). Edited by Professor F.W. Maitland.
Volume 21, 1906. BOROUGH CUSTOMS. Volume II. Edited by Miss Mary Bateson, Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge. Volume I was published as Volume 18 for 1904.
Volume 22, 1907. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume TV. YEAR BOOKS OF 3 and 4 EDWARD II (A.D. 1310). Edited by Professor F.W. Maitland and G.J. Turner, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
Volume 23, for 1908. SELECT CASES CONCERNING THE LAW MERCHANT. Volume I. LOCAL COURTS. Edited by Professor Charles Gross, Professor of History, Harvard University. Volumes II and III, edited by Dr. Hubert Hall, appear as Volumes 46 and 49 for 1929 and 1932, respectively.
Volume 24, for 1909. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume V. THE EYRE OF KENT OF 6 AND 7 EDWARD II (A.D. 1313-1314), Volume I. Edited by Professor F.W. Maitland, L.W. Vernon Harcourt and W.C. Bolland, Barristers-at-Law.
Volume 25, for 1910. SELECT PLEAS OF THE COURT OF STAR CHAMBER, 1509-1544. Volume II. Edited,from the records in the Public Record Office, by I.S. Leadam, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Volume I was published as Volume 16 for 1902.
Volume 26, for 1911. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume VI. YEAR BOOKS OF 4 EDWARD II (A.D. 1310-1311). Edited by G.J. Turner, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-atLaw. This is a continuation of Volume IV of this series, and contains the reports for Michaelmas, Hilary and Easter terms of 4 Edward II. The rest of the Year Book of 4 Edward II, edited by Mr. Turner, is in the Year Books Series, Volume IX, covering Trinity term, and was issued as Volume 42 for 1925.
Volume 27, for 1912. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume VII. THE EYRE OF KENT OF 6 AND 7 EDWARD II (A.D. 1313-1314), Volume II. Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, Professor F.W. Maitland and L.W. Vernon Harcourt. With facsimile of a specimen of MS. This is a continuation of Volume 24 published for 1909 Clear Books Series, Volume V), comprising the civil pleas arranged in alphabetical order from Account to Mesne.
Volume 28, for 1913. SELECT CHARTERS OF TRADING COMPANIES. Edited, from the Patent Rolls in the Public Record Office, by Cecil T. Carr, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. This volume contains forty-one grants to companies, ranging in date from 1530 to 1707.
Volume 29, for 1913. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume VII. THE EYRE OF KENT OF AND 7 EDWARD II (A.D. 1313-1314), Volume III. Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This is a continuation of Volume 27 published for 1912 (Year Books Series, Volume VII), comprising the remainder of the civil please in alphabetical order, and a collection of notes dealing with miscellaneous matters.
Volume 30, for 1914. SELECT BILLS IN EYRE, A.D. 1292-1333. Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
Volume 31, for 1815. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XI. YEAR BOOKS OF 5 EDWARD II (A.D. 1311-1312). Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This volume includes reports of cases heard in the Hilary and Easter terms of 5 Edward II. Volume X, covering the Michaelmas term, 5 Edward II, edited by Mr. G.J. Turner and completed with an introduction by Professor T.F.T. Plucknett, appeared as Volume 63 for 1944.
Volume 32, for 1915, PUBLIC WORKS IN MEDIEVAL LAW. Volume I. Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by C.T. Flower, of the Public Record Office and the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. This volume consists of cases taken from Ancient Indictments and Coram Rege Rolls, Relating to the maintenance of roads, bridges, sewers, and other public local works during the reigns of Edward III and Richard II. Volume II was published as Volume 40 for 1923.
Volume 33, for 1916. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XII. YEAR BOOKS OF 5 EDWARD II (A.D. 1312). Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law, This volume includes reports of cases heard in the Easter and Trinity terms of 5 Edward II.
Volume 34, for 1917. YEAR BOOK SERIES. Volume XIII. YEAR BOOKS OF 6 EDWARD II. (A.D. 1312-1313). Edited by Sir Paul Vinogradoff, F.B.A., and Ludwik Ehrlich, B. Litt., of Exeter College, Oxon., Dr. Jur., Lwow, Lecturer in Political Science in the University of California. This volume contains reports of cases in the Michaelmas term of 6 Edward II.
Volume 35, for 1919. SELECT CASES BEFORE THE KING'S COUNCIL. Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by I.S. Leadam and Professor J.F. Baldwin. This volume contains reports of cases heard before the King and Council between 1243 and 1482. (This volume was kindly printed in America by the Harvard University Press, owing to the War. The title Page as originally printed describes it as Volume 36, for 1918. As it was not practicable to send the volume to England in 1918, it was not issued until 1919, when its volume numeration was not issued until 1919, when its volume numeration was altered to Volume 35, as Volume 36 had in the meantime been issued. Some copies were issued unaltered as to number of volume on the title page and the back of the volume.)
Volume 36, for 1918. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XV. YEAR BOOKS OF 6 AND 7 EDWARD II (A.D, 1313). Edited, from sundry MSS., by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This volume contains reports of cases heard in the Hilary term of 6 Edward II and in Michaelmas term of the following regnal year.
Volume 37, for 1920. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XVIII. YEAR BOOKS OF 8 EDWARD II (A.D. 1314). Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This volume contains the reports of the Michaelmas term of the eighth year.
Volume 38, for 1921. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XIV, Part I. YEAR BOOKS OF 6 EDWARD II (A.D. 1312-1313). Edited by Sir Paul Vinogradoff, F.B.A., and Ludwik Ehrlich, B. Litt., Dr. Jur., Lecturer of the University of Lwow. This volume contains the remainder of the cases of Michaelmas term. 6 Edward II, which could not be included in Year Books Series, Volume XIII.
Volume 39, for 1922. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XVI. YEAR BOOKS OF 7 EDWARD II (A.D. 1313-1314). Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This volume includes cases heard in all the terms of the seventh year.
Volume 40, for 1923. PUBLIC WORKS IN MEDIEVAL LAW. Volume II. Edited, from the Records in the Public Record Office, by C.T. Flower, F.S.A. of the Public Record Office and the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. This volume and Volume I, published as Volume 32 for 1915, consist of cases taken from Ancient Indictments and the Coram Rege Rolls, relating to the maintenance of roads, bridges, sewers, and other public works during the reigns of Edward III and Richard II.
Volume 41, for 1924, YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XVII. YEAR BOOKS OF 8 EDWARD II (A.D. 1314-1315). Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This volume includes cases heard in the Hilary, Easter, and Trinity terms of the eighth year.
Volume 42, for 1925. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume IX. YEAR BOOKS OF 4 EDWARD II (A.D. 1311). Edited by G.J. Turner, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This volume contains all the reports of Trinity term, 4 Edward II, together with a few undated reports of earlier terms.
Volume 43, for 1926. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XIV. Part II, YEAR BOOKS OF 6 EDWARD II (A.D. 1313). Edited by W.C. Bolland, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. This volume contains the reports of the Hilary and Easter terms of the sixth year, and is a continuation of Volume XIV, Part I, issued as Volume 38 for 1921.
Volume 44, 1927. LIBER PAUPERUM. OF VACARIUS. Edited by F. De Zulueta, D.C.L., Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford.
Volume 45, for 1928. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XIX. YEAR BOOKS OF 9 EDWARD II (A.D. 1315-1316). Edited by G.J. Turner, M.A., and W.C. Bolland, LL.D., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
Volume 46, for 1929. SELECT CASES CONCERNING THE LAW MERCHANT. Volume II. CENTRAL COURTS. Edited by Hubert Hall, Litt.D., F.S.A. This volume was envisaged by the late Professor Charles Gross and referred to in his preface to Volume I, published as Volume 23 for 1908. Volume III appears as Volume 49 for 1932.
Volume 47, for 1930. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. YEAR BOOKS OF 10 EDWARD IV AND 49 HENRY VI (A.D. 1470). Edited by Miss N. Neilson, of Mount Holyoke College. This volume includes cases of a year divided between two reigns - Easter and Trinity terms 10 Edward IV; Michaelmas and Hilary terms 49 Henry VI.
Volume 48, for 1931. SELECT CASES IN THE EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS. Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by Hilary Jenkinson, F.S.A., and Beryl E.R. Formoy. This volume contains the whole of the first roll of Exchequer of Pleas (A.D. 1236-1237) and large selections from the second (A.D. 1259-1260) and from the roll of 1299-1300, with occasional cases taken from other rolls of the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
Volume 49, for 1932. SELECT CASES CONCERNING THE LAW MERCHANT. Volume III. STATUTORY RECOGNIZANCES AND SPECIAL AS ASSIZES. Edited, from sundry MSS., by Hubert Hall, Litt.D., F.S.A. This work which Professor Charles Gross inaugurated with Volume 23, was continued in Volume 46 for 1929.
Volume 50, for 1933. YEAR BOOKS SERIES, YEAR BOOKS OF HENRY VI, 1 HENRY VI (A.D. 1422). Edited by C.H. Williams, M.A.
Volume 51, additional for 1933. SELECT CASES IN THE EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. Edited by M. Hemmant, PH.D. This volume contains reports of cases heard before the assembly of all the Justices of England between the years 1.377 and 1469. A further volume, covering 1461-1509, appeared as Volume 64 for 1945.
Volume 52, for 1934. YEAR BOOK SERIES. Volume XX. YEAR BOOKS OF 10 EDWARD II (1316-1317). Edited, from sundry MSS., by M. Dominica Legge, B.Litt., M.A., and Sir W.S. Holdsworth, K.C.. D.C.L., HON. LL.D., F.B.A., Vinerian Professor of English Law. This volume contains the reports for Michaelmas term, 10 Edward II.
Volume 53, additional for 1934. ROLLS OF THE JUSTICES IN EYRE FOR LINCOLNSHIRE (1218-1219) AND WORCESTERSHIRE (1221). Edited, from two rolls in the Public Record Office, by Doris M. Stenton.
Volume 54, for 1935. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XXI. YEAR BOOKS OF 10 EDWARD II (1316-1317). Edited by M. Dominica Legge, B.Litt., M.A., and Sir W.S. Holdsworth, K.C.. D.C.L., HON, LL.D., F.B.A., Vinerian Professor of English Law. This volume contains the reports of Hilary, Easter and Trinity terms, 10 Edward II.
Volume 55, for 1936. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH UNDER EDWARD I, Volume I. Edited from the Records in the Public Record Office, by G.O. Sayles, M.A., D.Litt, This volume contains a selection of pleas from the rolls of the Court of King's Bench during the first half of Edward I's reign. The series is continued in Volumes 57, 58, 74, 76, 82, and 88.
Volume 56, for 1937. ROLLS OF THE JUSTICES IN EYRE FOR YORKSHIRE IN 3 HENRY III (1218-1219). Edited, from the rolls in the Public Record Office, by Doris M. Stenton.
Volume 57, for 1938. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH UNDER EDWARD I. Volume II. Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by G.O. Sayles, M.A., D.Litt. This volume contains a selection of pleas from the rolls of the Court of King's Bench of the middle years of Edward I's Reign.
Volume 58, for 1939. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH UNDER EDWARD I. Volume III. Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by G.O. Sayles, M.A., D.Litt. This volume contains a selection of pleas from the Rolls of the Court of King's Bench from the middle years to the close of Edwards I's reign.
Volume 59, for 1940. ROLLS OF THE JUSTICES IN EYRE FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE, WARWICHSHIRE, AND SHROPSHIRE, 1221, 1222. Edited, from the rolls in the Public Record Office, by Doris M. Stenton.  
Volume 60, for 1941. SELECT CASES OF PROCEDURE WITHOUT WRIT UNDER HENRY III. Edited, from the records in the Public Record Office, by H.G. Richardson and Professor G.O. Sayles, M.A., D.Litt.
Volume 61, for 1942. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XXII. YEAR BOOKS OF 11 EDWARD II (1317-1318). Edited, from sundry MSS., By j.P. Collas, B.Litt., B.A., and Sir W.S. Holdsworth, O.M., K.C., D.C.L., HON. LL.D., F.B.A., Vinerian Professor of English Law.
Volume 62, for 1943. INTRODUCTION TO THE CURIA REGIS ROLLS, 1199-1230. By C.T. Flower, C.B., M.A., F. S.A.
Volume 63, for 1944. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume X. YEAR BOOKS OF 5 EDWARD II (A.D. 1311). Edited by G.J. Turner, M.A., F.B.A., completed with an introduction by Professor T.F.T. Plucknett, F.B.A. This volume contains the reports for the Michaelmas term. The volumes for the other terms of 5 Edward II were issued as Volumes XI and XII in the Year Books Series and appeared as Volumes 31 & 33 for 1915 and 1916, respectively.
Volume 64, for 1945. SELECT CASES IN THE EXCHEQUER CHAMBER BEFORE ALL THE JUSTICES OF ENGLAND. Volume II (1461-1509). Edited by M. Hemmant, Ph.D. This volume continues the selection begun in Volume 51 for 1933.
Volume 65, for 1946. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XXIII. YEAR BOOKS OF 12 EDWARD II (IMICHAELIMAS A.D. 1318). Edited, from sundry MSS., by J.P. Collas, B.Litt., B.A., and T.F.T. Plucknett, F.B.A., Professor of Legal History in the University of London.
Volume 66, for 1947. BREVIA PLACITATA. Edited by G.J. Turner, M.A., F.B.A., and completed with additions by Professor T.F.T. Plucknett, F.B.A., Professor of Legal History in the University of London.
Volume 67, for 1948. PLEAS BEFORE THE KING OR HIS JUSTICES, 1198-1202. Volume I. Edited by Lady Stenton, D.Litt., F.B.A., Senior Lecturer in the University of Reading. This contains an Introduction to both volumes, with appendices of other original documents.
Volume 68, for 1949. PLEAS BEFORE THE KING OR HIS JUSTICES, 1198-1202. Volume II. Edited by Lady Stenton, D.Litt., F.B.A., Senior Lecturer in the University of Reading. Volumes III & IV were published as 83 & 84.
Volume 69, for 1950. THE CASUS PLACITORUM and REPORTS OF CASES IN THE KING'S COURTS, 1272-1278. Edited with an introduction by William Huse Dunham, Jr., George Burton Adams Professor of History in Yale University.
Volume 70, for 1951. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XXIV. YEAR BOOKS OF 12 EDWARD II (1319). Edited, from sundry MSS., by J.P. Collas, B.Litt., Professor of French in the University of London, and T.F.T. Plucknett, F.B.A., Professor of Legal History in the University of London.
Volume 71, for 1952. READINGS AND MOOTS AT THE INNS OF COURT IN THE 15TH CENTURY. Volume I. READINGS. Edited by Professor Samuel E. Thorne, Professor of Legal History, Yale Law School.
Volume 72, for 1953. FLETA. Volume II. Prologue, Books 1 and 2. Edited by H.G. Richardson, F.B.A., and Professor G.O. Sayles, M.A., D.Litt., of the University of Aberdeen. Books 3 & 4 are contained in Volume 89 for 1972 and Books 5 & 6 in Volume 99 for 1983.
Volume 73, for 1954. LORD NOTTINGHAM'S CHANCERY CASES. Volume I. Edited by David E.C. Yale, M.A., LL.B., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Volume 2 was published as Volume 79 for 1961-1962.
Volume 74, for 1955. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Volume IV. EDWARD II. Edited by Professor G.O. Sayles, M.A., D.Litt., M.R.I.A., King's College, University of Aberdeen. This volume contains a collection of cases from the plea rolls of 1307-1327.
Volume 75, for 1956. SELECT CASES IN THE COUNCIL OF HENRY VII. Edited by the late C.G. Bayne, C.S.I., and prepared for publication by Professor William Huse Dunham, Jr., George Burton Adams Professor of History and Master of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University.
Volume 76, 1957. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Volume V. EDWARD III, 1327-1340. Edited by Professor G.O. Sayles M.A., D.Litt., M.R.I.A., King's College, University of Aberdeen.
Volume 77, for 1958-1959. ROYAL WRITS IN ENGLAND FROM THE CONQUEST TO GLANVILL: STUDIES IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE COMMON LAW. Edited by Dr. R.C. van Caenegem, University of Ghent.
Volume 78, for 1960. PENSION BOOK OF CLEMENT'S INN, 1714-1749. Edited with an introduction by Sir Cecil Carr, K.C.B., Q.C., F.B.A.
Volume 79, for 1961-1962. LORD NOTTINGHAM'S CHANCERY CASES. Volume II. Edited by David E.C. Yale, M.A., LL.B., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Volume II. Volume I was published as Volume 73 for 1954.
Volume 80, for 1963. NOVAE NARRATIONES. Edited by the late Miss Elsie Shanks and S.F.C. Milsom, Fellow of New College, Oxford.
Volume 81, for 1964. YEAR BOOK SERIES. Volume xxv, YEAR BOOKS OF 12 EDWARD II (1319). Edited from sundry MSS. by J.P. Collas, B.Litt., Professor of French in the University of London. This volume contains the remaining reports for Easter term and those for Trinity term, 12 Edward II.
Volume 82, for 1965. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Volume VI. EDWARD III: 1341-1377. Edited by G.O. Sayles, D.Litt., M.R.I.A., F.B.A., Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. This volume contains a selection of cases from the rolls of the Court during the rest of Edward III's reign.
Volume 83, for 1966, PLEAS BEFORE THE KING OR HIS JUSTICES, 1198-1212. Volume III. Edited by Lady Stenton, D.Litt., HON.LL.D., F.B.A. This and the succeeding volume continue the work, begun in volumes 67 and 68, of making available in print such of the earliest judicial records as were omitted from the Curia Regis Rolls and other series. Volumes I and II were published in Volumes 67 and 68.
Volume 84, for 1967. PLEAS BEFORE THE KING OR HIS JUSTICES, 1198-1212. Volume IV. Edited by Lady Stenton D.Litt., HON. LL.D., F.B.A.
Volume 85, for 1968. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XXVI, Part I. THE EYRE OF LONDON, 14 EDWARD II (A.D. 1321), Volume I. Edited by the late Helen M. Cam, C.B.E., Litt.D., F.B.A.
Volume 86, for 1969. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XXVI, Part II. THE EYRE OF LONDON, 14 EDWARD II (A.D. 1321). Volume II. Edited by the late Helen M. Cam, C.B.E., Litt.D., F.B.A.
Volume 87, for 1970. EARLY REGISTERS OF WRITS. Edited by Dr. Elsa De Haas, Brooklyn College, and G.D.G. Hall, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. The evolution of the forms of the writs and the development of the Registrurm Brevium Originalium can be traced in the first four Registers which are printed, with Latin text and translation, in this volume; they cover the reigns of Henry III, Edward I and Edward II. The volume ends with a Registrum Judiciale of the mid-thirteenth century.
Volume 88, for 1971. SELECT CASES IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Volume VII: RICHARD II. HENRY IV AND HENRY V (1377-1422). Edited by G.O. Sayles, D.Litt., M.R.I.A., F.B.A. This is the concluding volume of a series which has been published over a period of 35 years, and which has now made available select cases from the King's Bench between 1272 and 1422. The earlier volumes are Volumes: 55 (1936); 57 (1938); 58 (1939); 74 (1955); 76 (1957); and 82 (1965).
Volume 89, additional for 1972. FLETA. Volume III. Books 3 and 4. Edited by H.G. Richardson, F.B.A. and G.O. Sayles, D.Litt., M.R.I.A., F.B.A. Volume II, containing the Prologue and Books 1 and 2, was published as Volume 72 for 1953. Volume III contains Books 3 and 4. Books 5 and 6 are in Volume 99 for 1983.
Volume 90, for 1972-1973. THE ROLL AND WRIT FILE OF THE BERKSHIRE EYRE OF 1248. Edited by Dr. M.T. Clanchy, Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Glasgow.
Volume 91, for 1974. DOCTOR AND STUDENT. by Christopher St. German. Edited by the late Professor T.F.T. Plucknett, F.B.A., and by T.L. Barton, Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Volume 92, for 1975. THE PREROGATIVES OF THE KING. by Sir Matthew Hale. Edited by David E. C. Yale. Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.
Volume 93, for 1976. THE REPORTS OF SIR JOHN SPELMAN (Part I). Edited by Dr. J.H. Baker, Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. The reconstruction of the notebook of one of the justices of the King's Bench in the reign of Henry VIII is the first volume of sixteenth-century common law cases to be printed since the seventeenth century.
Volume 94, for 1977. THE REPORTS OF SIR JOHN SPELMAN (Part II). Edited by Dr. J.H. Baker, Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. The text of this volume consists of selected records from the plea rolls which parallel cases in the preceding volume, together with some related bills in Chancery. The volume contains the introduction and the indexes.
Volume 95, for 1978-1979. SELECT CASES FROM THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY, c. 1200-1301. Edited by Professor Norma Adams, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., and Professor Charles Donahue, Jr., of the Harvard Law School. For convenience published in one binding, this double volume was issued for 1978 and 1979.
Volume 96, for 1980. THE SHROPSHIRE EYRE ROLL OF 1256. Edited by Professor Alan Harding, University of Liverpool.
Volume 97 for 1981. YEAR BOOK SERIES. THE EYRE OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 1329-1330. Volume 1. Edited by Professor Donald W. Sutherland of the University of Iowa.
Volume 98, for 1982. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. THE EYRE OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE 1329-1330. Volume 2. Edited by Professor Donald W. Sutherland of the University of Iowa.
Volume 99, for 1983. FLETA. Volume IV. Books 5 and 6. Edited by G.O. Sayles, D.Litt., M.R.I.A., F.B.A. Volume II was published as the Society's Volume 72 for 1953, Volume III as Volume 89, an extra volume for 1972.
Volume 100, for 1984. SELECT CASES OF TRESPASS IN THE KING'S COURTS, 1307-1399. Volume I. Edited by Professor Morris S. Amold of the Indiana University School of Law. Volume II, completing the text and with an index, is Volume 103 for 1987.
Volume 101, for 1985. SELECT CASES ON DEFAMATION TO 1600. Edited by Professor Richard H. Helmholz of the University of Chicago. This volume presents materials drawn mainly from the records of local courts and church courts from the 14th century onwards, and from the plea rolls of the common law courts in the 16th century.
Volume 102, for 1986. THE NOTEBOOK OF SIR JOHN PORT. Edited by Dr. J.H. Baker, F.B.A., Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Volume 103, for 1987. SELECT CASES OF TRESPASS IN THE KING'S COURTS, 1307-1399, Volume II. Edited by the Hon. Judge Morris S. Amold, United States District Judge, Western District of Arkansas. This concludes the collection which begins in Volume 100.
Volume 104, for 1988. YEAR BOOKS SERIES. Volume XXVII. YEAR BOOKS OF 14 EDWARD II (MICHAELMAS 1320). Edited by Professor S.J. Stoljar and L.J. Downer, both of the Australian National University, Canberra
Volume 105, for 1989. READINGS AND MOOTS AT THE INNS OF COURT IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, Volume II. MOOTS AND READERS' CASES. Edited by Professor S.E. Thorne, Harvard Law School, and Professor J.H. Baker, Fellow of St. Catharine's, Cambridge. Volume I (Readings) was published as Volume 71. The text of this volume consists of a selection of moots (pleading exercises) and readers' cases (disputations upon the propositions advanced in readings). The volume also contains an introduction by Professor Baker tracing the evolution of the two kinds of disputation to the learning exercises of the 14th century, and some specimen moot cases.
Volume 106, for 1990. ENGLISH LAWSUITS FROM WILLIAM I TO RICHARD I, Volume I. WILLIAM I TO STEPHEN. Edited by Professor R. C. van Caenegem, University of Ghent. This two-volume collection, previously announced as a new Placita Anglo-Normannica, brings together all significant account of lawsuits between 1066 and 1199, drawn from chronicles, charters and similar sources. It shows that the period before the formal limit of legal memory is by no means prehistoric, and provides the materials for an assessment of the institutional and procedural changes wrought in this period.
Volume 107, for 1991. ENGLISH LAWSUITS FROM WILLIAM I TO RICHARD I, Volume II. HENRY I TO RICHARD I. Edited by Professor R. C. van Caenegem, University of Ghent. This concludes the edition which begins in Volume 106.
Volume 108, for 1992. HALE AND FLEETWOOD ON ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION. Edited by M.J. Prichard, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and D.E.C. Yale, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Unlike Volumes 6 and 11, which contain specimen admiralty cases, the principal object of this volume is to present in detail the argument over maritime jurisdiction as it was developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A full historical introduction is followed by editions of two previously unpublished treaties, one by Sejeant William Fleetwood (d. 1594) and the other by Sir Matthew Hale (d. 1676).
Volume 109, for 1993. REPORTS FROM THE LOST NOTEBOOKS OF SIR JAMES DYER, Volume I. Edited by Professor J.H. Baker, Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. This is the first edition of Elizabethan law reports to be undertaken by the Society and covers the period of Dyer's chief justiceship of the Common Pleas (1559-81), with a few older cases going back to 1541. The contents supplement the vulgate edition of Dyer, from which over 500 cases and memoranda were omitted. The Introduction, besides giving a sketch of the reporter, concentrates on the issues of public law found in the reports: the Crown and the royal prerogative, Parliament and legislation, treason and public order, questions of religion, the protection of individual liberty against abuses of executive authority, and the work of the prerogative courts. The text of this volume contains the reports (not before printed) from 1541 to 1571.
Volume 110, for 1994. REPORTS FROM THE LOST NOTEBOOKS OF SIR JAMES DYER, Volume II. Edited by Professor J.H. Baker, Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. This volume concludes the edition which commences in Volume 109, with the main reports continued from 1571 to 1581, and an edition of Dyer's circuit notebook (1554-81). The latter is the earliest continuous record of circuit practice, and the only such notebook ever to have been printed. There are indexes and tables to both volumes.
Volume 111, for 1995. EARLIEST ENGLISH LAW REPORTS, Volume I. Edited by Dr. Paul Brand. English law-reporting began at the end of Henry III's reign, but during the first half of the reign of his successor Edward I there is no Common Bench term for which more than seven datable reports survive. Volumes 111-112 contain all the reports of 142 cases heard in the Common Bench between 1268 and 1289, being all those which are identifiable as such in the miscellaneous collections of undated reports found in manuscript. Three-quarters of the cases have been identified in the plea rolls, and the matching enrolment are printed with the reports. The introduction describes the main manuscripts from which the reports are taken, and gives background information about the justices mentioned in them.
Volume 112 for 1996. EARLIEST ENGLISH LAW REPORTS, Volume II. Edited by Dr. Paul Brand. A continuation of the edition in Volume 111, with cases from 1285 to 1292. The introduction provides background information about the serjeants mentioned in the reports.
Volume 113, JOHN SPELMAN'S READING ON QUO WARRANTO. Edited by Professor J.H. Baker.
Volume 114, SELECT CASES IN MANORIAL COURTS: PROPERTY LAW AND FAMILY LAW, 1250-1550. Edited by Professor L. Bonfield and Professor L.R. Poss.
Volume 115, THE REPORTS OF JOHN CARYLL, Volume I. Edited by Professor J.H. Baker. This volume covers the period from 1486 to 1500.
Volume 116, THE REPORTS OF JOHN CARYLL, Volume II. Edited by Professor J.H. Baker. This volume covers the period from 1501 to 1522. Some of the more interesting cases in this volume are those related to Caryll's work as a law officer. This volume also includes tables and indices for both parts of the Caryll's Reports.
Volume 117, CASES CONCERNING EQUITY AND THE COURTS OF EQUITY, 1550-1660, Part I. Edited by Professor W. H. Bryson, Professor of Law, University of Richmond. A remarkable collection of hitherto-unpublished cases, this includes (in its entirety) the earliest series of Powle, who was register of the Court of Chancery under Elizabeth I, and an anonymous collection of notes made in the time of Lord Ellesmere (Lord Keeper, 1596-1603; Chancellor, 1603-1617). As an experiment, these materials have been published entirely in English, with footnotes indicating difficult readings in the French. The corresponding records are not printed here, but so far as possible, references are made to the relevant entries in the decree and order books. This part includes specimen pleadings and reports to 1611. Considerable assistance was given in the preparation of both parts by Dr. N. G. Jones.
Volume 118, CASES CONCERNING EQUITY AND THE COURTS OF EQUITY, 1550-1660, Part II. Edited by Professor W. H. Bryson, Professor of Law, University of Richmond. A continuation of the edition in vol. 117, with reports from 1611 to 1660. The tables and indices for both parts are in this volume.
Volume 119, THE YEAR BOOKS OF 12-14 HENRY VIII. Edited by Professor J. H. Baker, QC, FBA, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge. The two volumes (12-13) and 14 Henry VIII were printed not long after the cases were decided, and stand out from other year books by the selection of cases in which points of law were raised on the record rather than in extempore discussions and through tentative pleading. Although the principal texts are in print (in black-letter editions), they are not easy to use. Much can be learned from the editing process and especially from a comparison of reports and records. Unlike the content of most other year books, nearly all the cases in these volumes are identifiable in the plea rolls.
Volume 120, REPORTS OF CASES IN THE TIME OF HENRY VIII, Vol. I. Edited by Professor J. H. Baker, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge. This is a collection of previously unpublished reports for the period 1509-1550, a period for which the printed year books cover only seven years. Thirteen different series are included, the most important being those of Roger Yorke, Richard Pollard, John Caryll the younger, and William Yelverton. This is the first period of history for which so many separate series of reports may be distinguished, and belies Maitland’s suggestion that in this period of rapid change there was a loss of interest in case law.
Volume 121, REPORTS OF CASES IN THE TIME OF HENRY VIII, Vol. II. Edited by Professor J. H. Baker, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge. This volume completes the collection of reports started in the preceding volume and supplies indexes for both volumes.
Volume 122, EARLIEST ENGLISH LAW REPORTS, Volume III. Edited by Dr. Paul Brand, FBA, All Souls College, Oxford.
 
 
 
 

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