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De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae

Bracton’s treatise offers a starting point for studying medieval English law. This record identifies volume 2 of Travers Twiss’s 1879 edition and translation. The medieval composition, the first printed edition of 1569, and this nineteenth-century edition are separate dates.

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De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae

Henry de Bracton · Volume 2 · 1879

2 Henry de Bracton, De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (Travers Twiss ed. & trans., London, Longman & Co. 1879) (1569)

Latin text and English translation. Title page visually verified, PDF page 11.

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This record cites the actual 1879 Twiss volume, which contains Latin text and an English translation. The first printed edition appeared in 1569; that is not the medieval composition date. The main title is normalized from the Latin title page; honorifics and degrees are omitted. The title page also lists additional distributors.