479 Un disposition a faire un male chose, A disposition to commit a bad action. 525 Spoliatus debet, ante omnia, restitui. Restitution should be made to the person 535 Judicandum est legibus, non exemplis, We must judge by the laws and not by examples. Dates of Leading Events in the History of English Law. 550 Gavelkind. 590 British laws translated into Saxon. 605 or 887 Court of Chancery said to have been instituted. 690 Saxon laws of Ina published. 886 Trial by jury. 886 or 890 Alfred frames a code of laws. 925 Coroners first mentioned. 1042 Edward the Confessor. 1050-1065 Edward collects the laws. 1066 William I. 1067 or 1070 Court of Chancery refounded. 1070 Introduction of the feudal system. 1076 Justices of the peace appointed. 1080 or 1085 Doomsday book commenced. 1085 Distinction first arose between lay and ecclesiastical courts. 1086 Doomsday book completed. 1087 William II. 1100 Henry I. crowned. Restores Saxon laws. 1100 Power of bequeathing lands by last will and testament was confirmed to English subjects. 1265 First assembly of the commons as a confirmed representation. 1267 Statute of Marlbro. 1272 Edward I. 1275 Statutes of Westminster, also 1285 and 1290. 1278 Statute of Gloucester, the earliest statute of which any record exists. 1279 Statute of mortmain. 1280 Quo warranto. 1283 Wales united to England. 1283 Statute of merchants. 1284 Statutes of Wales. Statutes of Winchester. 1289 Quo warranto. 1294 First regular parliament. 1296 Scotland subdued. 1297 Statutes forbidding the levying of taxes without the consent of parliament. 1306 Statute of praemunire. 1705 Promissory notes made assignable. 1707 Union of two kingdoms under title of Great Britain. 1714 George I. 1727 George II. 1760 George III. 1784 Mansfield declares that fictions of law shall not prevent execution of justice. 1794 Habeas Corpus act suspended. 1851 Many legal technicalities gotten rid of by act of parliament. 1867 New Reform act, 1869 Arrest for debt abolished in England. 1873 Judicature act. 1879 Civil Procedure act abolishes outlawry in civil proceedings. Bibliography of the Commentaries. 1765 Vol. I. first published. Printed at the Clarendon Press. Succeeding editions of this volume were published in 1766, 1768, 1770. 1766 Vol. II. first published. Succeeding editions in 1767, 1768 and 1770. 1768 Vol. III. first published. 1769 Vol. IV. first published. 1771. All the foregoing are in quarto. First edition in octavo. Called on its title page the fourth edition. It is a 1773 Oxford, 8vo., 4 vols., 5th edition. 1774 London, quarto, 4 vols., 6th edition. 1775 Oxford, 8vo., 4 vols., 7th edition. 1778 Oxford, 8vo., 4 vols., 8th edition. 1783 London, 8vo., 4 vols., 9th edition. 1787 London, 8vo., 4 vols., 10th edition. 1791 London, 8vo., 1 vols., 11th edition. 1793-95 London, 8vo., 4 vols., 12th edition. (This edition contains portraits of the judges.) 1800 London 8vo., (Notes by Christian), 4 vols., 13th edition. (1796. An edition at Dublin, 4 vols., 12 mo., called the 13th edition.) 1803 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 14th edition. (Notes by Christian.) 1809 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 15th edition. (Notes by Christian.) 1811 London, 4 vols., royal 8vo., 16th edition. (Notes by Christian and Archibald.) 1825 London, 4 vols.. 8vo., 17th edition. (Notes by Coleridge.) 1826 London, 4 vols., Svo., 18th edition. (Notes by Chitty. Often reprinted in America.) 1836 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 19th edition. (Notes by Christian, Chitty, Lee, Hovenden and Ryland, and references to American cases.) 1841-44 London 4 vols., 8vo., 20th edition. (Notes by James Stewart.) 1844 London, 4 vols., 8vo., 21st edition. Edited by four members of the English bar. Messrs. Hargrove, Sweet, Couch and Welsby. Reprinted in New York with notes by Wendell. This is said to be the last carefully edited English edition. In 1841 appeared Serjeant Stephens' New Commentaries, and in 1869 Brown and EARLY AMERICAN EDITIONS. 1771-2 First American edition of Robert Bee, of Philadelphia. 1799 Burton edition containing Christian's notes. 1803 Tucker's edition. Translations. |