ISBN: 9781341284090 - the first part of the institutes of the laws of england, or, a commentary upon littleton: not the name of the author only, but of the law itself (1 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: New. The text of the commentary on Thomas Littleton's "Tenures," the medieval treatise on English land law, which the commentator explains and annotates passage by passage. Its subject is real property and land tenure in England. The commentary is accompanied by editorial notes, references and tables prepared in part by Charles Butler. It also includes notes by Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale and Lord Chancellor Nottingham, and an analysis of Littleton written by an unknown hand in 1658-9. Coke's "Institutes" are described as the first textbooks of the modern common law, and the annotated Hargrave and Butler text became the standard form of the commentary.…