Legal Resources

British Legal History

Selected Llinks on the Internet

• National Register of Archives
• The National Archives
• IHR-INFO Gateway for historians at the Institute of Historical Research
• History of the United Kingdom -- Primary Documents
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
• Index of resources for Historians List of international historical links (University of Kansas)
• Legal History Links (Professor Bernard Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh, USA)
• Latin Culture Resources
• Hanover Historical Texts Project
• Legal History Resources (Tarlton Law Library, Texas)
• The Selden Society
• The Ames Foundation
• Ordnance Survey 1850
• University of Southern California University of Southern California English Medieval Legal Documents Wiki

Anglo Saxon

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Modern English (Berkeley)
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Old English (Labyrinth)
• Laws of Alfred and Ine
• Angelcynn Anglo-Saxon Living History 400-900 AD
• The Tribal Hidage
• Labyrinth Library : Old English Literature
• Old English Pages

Medieval

• Medieval England (Gateway)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham)
• Labyrinth Home Page (Medieval gateway)
• Medieval Latin
• Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar
• An anthology of Chancery English
• Laws of William the Conqueror
• The Domesday Book 1086
• Early Medieval Maps (an index)
• Index of Late Medieval Maps
• Domesday Book and Beyond, by F.W. Maitland

The early common law

• Charter of Liberties of Henry I, 1100
• Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164
• Constitutions of Clarendon, 1164 (Yale Law School)
• Assize of Clarendon 1166
• Assize of Clarendon 1166 (Yale Law School)
• Inquest of Sheriffs 1170
• The Nature of Courts and the Law Before 1176
• Treaty of Winchester, 1153, Assize of Northampton, 1176, and the Possessory Assizes
• Dialogue of the Exchequer
• Glanvill, 1187 (excerpts)
• Bracton's De Legibus
• Maitland: The Forms of Action at Common Law
• Court of Record
• Manner of holding Parliament
• Communal Courts
• The Assize of Novel Disseisin and Writs of Entry
• Writs of entry
• Dower, Utrum, Darrein Presentment
• Debt
• Detinue
• Evidence; Marriage

Feudalism and the Manor, Land and Lordship

• Origins of Feudalism (Vinogradoff)
• Feudal Terms
• Domesday Book: Hecham, 1086
• Description of Manor House at Chingford, Essex, 1265
• Alwalton Manor, 1279
• Manumission of a Villein, 1278
• Manors of the Abbey of Bec, A.D. 1246
• Manors of the Abbey of Bec, A.D. 1248
• Manors of the Abbey of Bec, A.D. 1249
• Manors of the Abbey of Bec, A.D. 1275
• Manors of the Abbey of Bec, A.D. 1280-1281
• Court Rolls of The Manor of Wakefield, 1274-1297

Later Mediaevel Common Law

• Lincolnshire Eyre, A.D. 1202
• Northamptonshire Eyre, A.D. 1202
• Bedfordshire Eyre, A.D. 1202
• Staffordshire Eyre, A.D. 1203
• Shropshire Eyre, A.D. 1203
• John I: Concession Of England To The Pope, 1213
• Magna Carta A translation of Magna Carta as confirmed by Edward I with his seal in 1297
• Confirmation of the Charters, 1297
• Confirmation of the Charters, 1297 (Yale Law School)
• Statute of Mortmain, 1279
• Three Summonses to the Parliament of 1295
• De Donis Conditionalibus, 1285; and Quia Emptores, 1290
• Quia Emptores 1290
• Ordinance of Laborers, 1349
• Statute of Labourers, 1351
• Guide to Early Church Documents

17th Century

• Matthew Hale (texts)
• Thomas Hobbes (texts)
• John Locke (texts)
• English Bill of Rights 1689 (Avalon Project)
• Extracts from the Declaration of Right (February, 1689)

18th Century

• Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the 18th Century
• Adam Smith - Texts
• Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations 1776
• The Avalon Project : Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
  
• The South Sea Bubble: A Short Sketch of Events
• Government, Law and Society: Political Theory
• Eighteenth-Century Resources -- History
• American Declaration of Independence
• Canadian Law: A History
• Parliamentary Reform
• Blackstones Commentaries on the Laws of England (Book 1)

19th Century

• Bentham
• The Clearances
• 19th century legal historians - HENRY MAINE
• 19th century legal historians - F.W.MAITLAND
• 19th century legal writers - JOHN STUART MILL
• 19th century legal historians - VINOGRADOFF
• 19th Century Documents (Avalon Project, Yale Law School)

20th Century

• The Paisley Snail (Donoghue v. Stevenson)