Bracton's Note Book: A Collection of Cases Decided in the King's Courts during the Reign of Henry the Third

Henry of Bracton (or Bratton) (c. 1210-68) was a jurist who worked as a Justice of Assize in the south-west of England, and was the author of the first systematic discussion of English common law. The manuscripts which form Bracton's Note Book were discovered in the British Museum in 1884 by Vinogradoff, and were edited in three volumes in 1887 by Maitland. These volumes contain a collection of over 2,000 lawsuits from the thirteenth century, each with a description of how the law should be...