La Sept Part des Reports Sr. Edw. Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del...
A First Edition of the Seventh Part of Coke's Reports, Which Includes Calvin's Case Coke, Sir Edward [1552-1634]. La Sept Part des Reports Sr. Edw. Coke Chivaler, Chiefe Iustice del Common Banke: Des divers Resolutions & Iudgements done sur Solemne Arguments & Avec Grand Deliberation & Conference des Tresreverend Iudges & Sages de la Ley, De Cases en ley Queux ne Fueront Unques Resolue ou Adiudges par Devant: Et les Raisons & Causes des Dits Resolutions & Iudgements. Publies en le Size an del Treshaut & Tresillustre Iaques Roy Dengl. Fr. & Irel. & de Escoce le 42. le Fountaine de Tout Pietie & Iustice, & la Vie de la Ley. [London]: Printed for the Societie of Stationers, 1608. [v], 28, 34 ff., 35-36 pp., 37-45, [1] ff. Complete. Folio (10-1/2" x 7"; 27 x 17.7 cm). Contemporary calf, blind rules to boards, raised bands, blind fillets and gilt "VII" to spine, gilt tooling to board edges. Light rubbing and a few shallow scuffs to boards, dampstain to lower outside corner of front board, which is detached along with front free endpaper, moderate rubbing to extremities, spine ends and corners bumped and worn, nineteenth-century bookplate with the coat of arms of Great Britain (stating that "this book is deposited in the book-case in the Shire-Hall, for the use of the magistrates of the County of Hereford") to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, tiny worm tracks to bottom margin in a few places, faint dampstaining to a few leaves, brief early annotation (a case citation) to B2r. $850. * First edition. Prefaces in Latin and English. Coke's Reports are not reports in the conventional sense, but highly detailed anthologies of precedents organized according to the cases they consider. In each instance Coke assembled a large body of cases, outlined their arguments, and explained the reasons for the judgment, using it as a basis for a statement of general principles. Taken together, the Reports form the most extensive and detailed treatment of common law pleading that had yet appeared. A work of immense authority, it was often cited as The Reports, there being no need to mention the author's name. Highlights of the seventh part are the preface, a response to criticism of his speech and charge at the Norwich assizes, and Calvin's Case, which helped to establish the rule of birthright citizenship. Engl.
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