THE

FIRST PART

OF THE

INSTITUTES

OF THE

LAWS OF ENGLAND.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THE

FIRST PART

OF THE

Institutes of the Laws of England;

OR, A

COMMENTARY UPON LITTLETON:

NOT THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR ONLY, BUT OF THE LAW ITSELF.

Quid te vana juvant miseræ ludibria chartæ ?
Hoc lege, quod possis dicere jure meum est.

MART.

Major hæreditas venit unicuique nostrum à jure et legibus, quàm à parentibus. CICERO.

Hæc ego grandævus posui tibi, candide lector,

Authore EDWARDO COKE, MILITE.

THE FIRST AMERICAN, FROM THE SIXTEENTH EUROPEAN EDITION;

REVISED AND CORRECTED, with Additions of NOTES, REFERENCES,

and PROPER TABLES.

BY FRANCIS HARGRAVE AND CHARLES BUTLER,

ESQUIRES, OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

INCLUDING ALSO THE NOTES OF

Lord Chief Justice HALE and Lord Chancellor NOTTINGHAM:

AND

An ANALYSIS of LITTLETON, written by an unknown Hand in 1658-9.

TO WHICH ARE NOW ADDED, CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENTS,

BY THOMAS DAY, Esq.

PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY JOHNSON AND WARNER, AND
SAMUEL R. FISHER, Jr.

1812.