New Title: Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law

Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law

This new resource from Hein Online provides U of T students with access to  huge collection of resources. These resources include searchable PDF versions of  publications from the Selden Society and Harvard’s Ames Foundation as well as the English Reports ( 1220-1694), the Statutes of the Realm (1235-1713), and collections of early English legal classics and scholarly law review articles on the subject.

The Selden Society is a ‘learned society devoted to the history of English Law.” Each year the Society publishes a volume of reprints of  original legal sources; including early law reports, courts’ records, judges’ notebooks, legal treatises, precedent and practice books. The source material is accompanied by a modern English translation. The Ames Foundation, has also published a number of reprints including the Year Books of Richard II and Lex mercatoria.

The collection also includes:

• Fitzherbert’s Grand Abridgement of the Law
• Brooke’s Grand Abridgement of the Law
• Bracton’s Laws of England
• Hughes Grand Abridgment of the Law
• Rolle’s Abridgment
• Cowel’s Interpreter
• Matthew Hale’s History & Analysis of the Common Law of England
• Pufendorf’s Law
• Selden’s Opera Omnia
• Viner’s Abridgment  & Supplement
• Blackstone’s Analysis of the Laws of England
• Blackstone’s Commentaries
• Comyns’ Digest – First and Second Editions
• Bacon’s Reading on the Statute of Uses
• Coke’s Institutes – First through the Fourth Parts
• Coke’s Reports
• Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws
• Travers Twiss’ Monumena Juridica, The Black Book of Admiralty

The collection can be accessed from the library catalog at  http://main.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=889043&T=J&F

The English Reports are Now Available Free Online

The English Reports is another extensive legal resource that is now available on the Web.

From 1220 to 1865, law reports in England were published by individual reporters whose reports bore their names (the nominate reports).  These older reports have been collected and reprinted in the English Reports. As of December 1, 2008 the Commonwealth Legal Information Institute has made this collection of over 100,000 older English cases freely accessible to all via the Internet.