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Institutes of the Lawes of England, the Glossary

The Institutes of the Lawes of England are a series of legal treatises written by Sir Edward Coke.^[1]

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Works by Edward Coke

Abel Roper

Abel Roper (1665–1726) was an English journalist, who wrote in the Tory interest.

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Abortion

Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus.

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Andrew Crooke and William Cooke

Andrew Crooke (c. 1605 – 20 September 1674) and William Cooke (died 1641?) were London publishers of the mid-17th-century.

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Andrew Millar

Andrew Millar (17058 June 1768) was a British publisher in the eighteenth century.

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Books of authority is a term used by legal writers to refer to a number of early legal textbooks that are excepted from the rule that textbooks (and all books other than statute or law report) are not treated as authorities by the courts of England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions.

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Chancery Lane

Chancery Lane is a one-way street that forms part of the western boundary of the City of London.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

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David Hume

David Hume (born David Home; – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist who was best known for his highly influential system of empiricism, philosophical skepticism and metaphysical naturalism.

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Edward Atkyns (politician)

Sir Edward Atkyns (c 1630 – October 1698) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.

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Edward Coke

Sir Edward Coke (formerly; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English barrister, judge, and politician.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English contract law

English contract law is the body of law that regulates legally binding agreements in England and Wales.

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English land law

English land law is the law of real property in England and Wales.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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English law

English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures. Institutes of the Lawes of England and English law are legal history of England.

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Fee simple

In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership.

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Fleet Street

Fleet Street is a street in Central London, England.

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Gray's Inn Road

Gray's Inn Road (or Grays Inn Road) is an important road in Central London, located in the London Borough of Camden.

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Holborn

Holborn, an area in central London, covers the south-eastern part of the London Borough of Camden and a part (St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars) of the Ward of Farringdon Without in the City of London.

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Indictable offence

In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).

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John Lettou

John Lettou or John of Lithuania (Jonas Lietuvis, fl. 1475–1483) was an English bookbinder and printer, presumably Lithuanian from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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John Streater

John Streater (died 1687) was an English soldier, political writer and printer.

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Land tenure

In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb "tenir" means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals.

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LexisNexis

LexisNexis is an American data analytics company headquartered in New York, New York.

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Liberty Fund

Liberty Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, which promotes the libertarian views of its founder, Pierre F. Goodrich through publishing, conferences, and educational resources.

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Lists of landmark court decisions

Landmark court decisions, in present-day common law legal systems, establish precedents that determine a significant new legal principle or concept, or otherwise substantially affect the interpretation of existing law.

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Magna Carta

(Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Monopoly

A monopoly (from Greek label and label), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situation where a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular thing.

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Quickening

In pregnancy terms, quickening is the moment in pregnancy when the pregnant woman starts to feel the fetus's movement in the uterus.

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Richard Atkyns

Richard Atkyns (1615–1677), was an English writer on printing.

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Richard Meighen

Richard Meighen (died 1641) was a London publisher of the Jacobean and Caroline eras.

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Roe v. Wade

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973),.

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Rule of law

The rule of law is a political ideal that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

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St Dunstan-in-the-West

The Guild Church of St Dunstan-in-the-West is in Fleet Street in the City of London.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Sweet & Maxwell

Sweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal publications.

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Temple Bar, London

Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London from the City of Westminster.

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Thomas de Littleton

Sir Thomas de Littleton or de Lyttleton '''KB''' SL(c. 1407–23 August 1481) was an English judge, undersheriff, Lord of Tixall Manor, and legal writer from the Lyttelton family.

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Thomas Dring

Thomas Dring (died 1668) was a London publisher and bookseller of the middle seventeenth century.

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United Kingdom constitutional law

The United Kingdom constitutional law concerns the governance of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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United States v. E. C. Knight Co.

United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 156 U.S. 1 (1895), also known as the "Sugar Trust Case," was a United States Supreme Court antitrust case that severely limited the federal government's power to pursue antitrust actions under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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