1791 Folio First Part INSTITUTIONS Laws of England Real Property Edward Coke

Description: Offered 1791 Large Folio (16" X 10" Nine Pounds) leather " The First Part of the INSTITUTES of the Laws of England or a Commentary upon Littleton the Fourteenth edition Author Edward Coke Dublin, Printed for James Moore, MDCCXCI. Both rear and front board detached but present interior bright without foxing complete xx,395 blank preface to Tables 50pp. index 10pp. additional noted (1795) 38pp. index cases cited in notes 20pp. complete. PROPERTY LAW basis for most State law in the United States starting with FEE SIMPLE .Born on February 1, 1552 at Mileham, Norfolk, Sir Edward Coke (1552 – 1634) was arguably the most prominent lawyer, legal writer, and politician during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, and a defender of the common law over the use of the Stuarts' royal prerogative.[1] Coke began his studies in 1567 at Trinity College during the years of the Vestiarian controversy — puritan protests against the Church of England. In 1572 he moved on to study at the Inner Temple, where he was admitted to the bar on April 20, 1578. Coke quickly rose to prominence through his successful execution of several noteworthy cases, such as Shelley's case. Coke's analytical efforts helped to refine the legal doctrines of English law, and his reputation won him a seat in Parliament. He would later become the Speaker of the House of Commons and eventually attorney general.[2] In 1606, after being created serjeant-at-law, Coke was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas. He was transferred, against his will, to chief justice of the Court of King's Bench in 1613; he also became a member of the privy council.[3] After several political and judicial skirmishes with James I and Francis Bacon, Coke was suspended from the privy council and removed from the bench in 1616.[4] Although he never returned to the bench, Coke did return to Parliament and was elected to that body four times from 1620 to 1629. During this time he took a lead in creating and composing the Petition of Right. "This document cited the Magna Carta and reminded Charles I that the law gave Englishmen their rights, not the king ... Coke's petition focused on ... due process, protection from unjust seizure of property or imprisonment, the right to trial by jury of fellow Englishmen, and protection from unjust punishments or excessive fines."[5] After this triumph, Coke spent his remaining years at his home, Stoke Poges, working on The Institutes of the Laws of England, another endeavor for which he is rightly famous.[6] Portrait of Sir Thomas Littleton. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, published in 1628, was the only part of the four volume Institutes to be appear in print during Coke’s lifetime.[7] Unlike the other three volumes of wholly original writing, it took the form of a commentary on an earlier work, Sir Thomas Littleton's Tenures. Littleton's Tenures was "a brief treatise on the Laws of England in relation to land" first published in 1481.[8] Coke's Commentary upon Littleton greatly expanded the original. It was organized into three columns of text: Littleton's original Law French; Coke's English translation; and Coke’s commentary.[9] Coke's additions to the original text were extensive, and included observations on issues not touched upon by Littleton at all.[10] The First Part of the Institutes was "in fact a legal encyclopaedia arranged on no plan except that suggested by the words and sentences of Littleton."[11]

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