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Landmarks of Law Reporting 8 -- Saunders' Reports

Sir Edmund Saunders (d. 1683), Les Reports du Tres Erudite Edmund Saunders ... des Divers Pleadings et Cases en le Court del Bank le Roy (2 vols.; London, 1686). Edmund Saunders authored the best law reports of the late 17th century, known for their accuracy and clarity. They set out the pleadings and...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 7 -- Manuscript reports

Sir Francis Moore (1558-1621), Cases collected and reported by Sir Francis Moore (manuscript in Law French, 2 vols., 1621). ________, Cases Collect & Report per Sir Fra. Moore Chevalier, Serjeant del Ley ... (2nd ed.; London 1688). Sir Francis Moore was a prominent English barrister during the reigns...

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Landmarks of Law Reporting 6 -- First Chancery reports

William Tothill (1560-1627), The Transactions of the High Court of Chancery, Both by Practice and President (London, 1671). Although reports of Chancery cases had occasionally appeared in manuscript Year Books and various printed case reports, Tothill's Transactions of the High Court of Chancery...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 5 -- Sir Edward Coke and "The Reports"

Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Les Reports de Edvvard Coke l’Attorney Generall le Roigne ... (London, 1600?). Sir Edward Coke's Reports are perhaps the most influential reports in the history of English law, so much so that they are cited simply as "The Reports." Their authority rests...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-04-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 4 -- Plowden: the first modern law reports

Edmund Plowden (1518-1585), Les Commentaries, ou Reportes de Edmunde Plowden un Apprentice de le Comen Ley (London, 1571) [with] La Second Part de les Reports, ou Commentaries ... (London, 1610). Edmund Plowden's Commentaries was the first of the "nominative reporters," reports cited by...

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Landmarks of Law Reporting 3 -- The demise of the Year Books

[Year Book, 27 Henry VIII.] De termino Pasche anno regni Regis Henrici Octaui. XXVII (London, 1556). Printers began publishing Year Book cases in the 1480s. Two and a half centuries of Year Book reporting came to an end with the cases from 27 Henry VIII (1535), shown here. Lawyers, judges and students...

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Landmarks of Law Reporting 2 -- Year Books: the birth of law reporting

[Year Books, 20-45 Edward III.] Liber Assisarum (manuscript in Law French, ca. 1450). The origin of our case reports lies in the late 13th century, with what are now called the "Year Books." The Liber Assisarum, shown here, is a collection of Year Book cases in the court of King’s Bench...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-04-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 1 -- Introduction

Case reports are a fundamental source for the study and practice of law in the Anglo-American common law system. "Landmarks in Law Reporting," the Spring 2009 exhibition from the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Rare Book Collection, illustrates the development of law reporting from the Middle...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-04-2009

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