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ENGLISH MEDIEVAL LEGAL DOCUMENTS

AD 600 - AD 1535:

A COMPILATION OF PUBLISHED SOURCES

The goal of this project is to create a collaborative database on the published sources of English medieval legal documents, and to provide links to the growing number of online sources currently being developed.

The guide has been created for the use of scholars and students of English medieval law, and it is our expectation that it will continue to grow and take off in new directions, based on the contributions of legal
scholars, librarians, and information specialists throughout the world. If you are aware of new digitizing initiatives or new publications of legal documents, or if you would like to add, edit, or comment on the present contents of this wiki, please feel free to do so. You may register by clicking on the link on the right of your screen.

For further information, e-mail Hazel D. Lord, Senior Law Librarian, at the Asa V. Call Law Library of the University of Southern California School of Law hlord@law.usc.edu

1. Introduction

1.1 SCOPE OF THE GUIDE
1.2 THE KINGS OF ENGLAND AND THE DATES OF THEIR ACCESSION
1.3 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

2. Case Law - The Courts

2.1 ROYAL COURTS
2.1.1 CENTRAL COMMON LAW COURTS
(Curia Regis, King’s Bench, Court of Common Pleas, Court of Exchequer, and Exchequer of the Jews.)
2.1.1.1 Court Records
2.1.1.2 Year Books and other Reports
2.1.1.3 Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases
2.1.1.4 Common Law Abridgments
2.1.2 CENTRAL NON COMMON LAW COURTS
(King’s Council, Chancery, Admiralty, Forest, Law Merchant, and Court of Chivalry.)
2.1.2.1 Court Records
2.1.2.2 Year Books and other Reports
2.1.2.3 Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases
2.1.3 ITINERANT COURTS
2.1.3.1 Eyres
2.1.3.1.1 Court Records
2.1.3.1.2 Year Books and other Reports
2.1.3.1.3 Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases
2.1.3.1.4 Feet of Fines
2.1.3.2 Assizes
2.1.3.2.1 Court Records
2.1.3.2.2 Year Books and other Reports
2.1.3.2.3 Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases
2.1.3.3 Gaol Deliveries
2.1.3.4 Justices under Special Commission

2.2 NON ROYAL COURTS
2.2.1 HIGH COURT OF PARLIAMENT
2.2.2 ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS
2.2.3 MANORIAL/SEIGNORIAL COURTS
2.2.4 PALATINE COURTS
2.2.5 LOCAL COURTS
2.2.5.1 Court Records
2.2.5.2 Other Case Reporters
2.2.5.3 Calendars, Registers and Indexes of Cases
2.2.6 UNIVERSITY COURTS

3. Statutory Law - Legislative Records

3.1 STATUTES
3.1.1 Collections of Statutes read more research papers
3.1.2 Abridgments, Digests and Indexes of Statutes
3.2 PARLIAMENTARY RECORDSacompanhantes sp
3.2.1 Full Text Records of Parliament
3.2.2 Calendars and Registers of Parliamentary Documents
3.3 ECCLESIASTICAL LAW

4. Administrative Law - Records of State

4.1 ROYAL CHARTERS AND WRITS OF PROCLAMATION
4.1.1 Full Text Charters and Proclamations
4.1.2 Calendars and Registers of Charters
4.2 ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS
4.2.1 Full text records
4.2.2 Calendars and Registers of Administrative Documents
4.3 THE DOMESDAY BOOK

5. Private Legal Documents - Wills

6. Writs and Pleadings

7. Early Legal Treatises

7.1 TREATISES
7.2 HANDBOOKS OF PROCEDURE AND PLEADING

8. Collections of Texts from Various Sources

8.1 COLLECTIONS WHICH COVER THE ENTIRE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
8.2 COLLECTIONS WHICH COVER INDIVIDUAL PERIODS OR REIGNS

9. Online Sources

9.1 ONLINE DATABASES AVAILABLE ON THE WEB
9.2 SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES

10. Research Guides, Bibliographies

10.1 RESEARCH GUIDES
10.2 BIBLIOGRAPHIES
10.3 MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUES

11. Histories

11.1 LEGAL HISTORY
11.2 GENERAL HISTORY

Author List

Title List

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