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 charte?
Hoc lege, quod possis dicere jure meum est.

MART.

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

Hæc ego grandavus 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.