Overview
Written anonymously at the end of the Year Book period, the Discourse Upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes is the earliest English treatise on the subject. Originally published: San Marino: Huntington Library, 1942. vii, 194 pp. Thorne's edition has the additional appeal of lengthy manuscript notes compiled from a copy owned by Sir Thomas Egerton [1540?-1617], an attorney who held several important posts in Elizabethan England including Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor. Reprint of first edition.
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Author: Samuel E Thorne ,
Sir Thomas Egerton
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.472kg
ISBN: 9781584773559
ISBN 10: 1584773553
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 24 April 2017
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Format: Hardback
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Reviews
Professor Thorne ... has carried out his difficult task with great skill and has prefixed an introduction which can be regarded as the most authoritative and most richly documented discussion as yet upon the problems of statutory interpretation from the later fourteenth century ... to the age of Coke. ...The Discourse inevitably cites numerous statutes and cases, and their identification has clearly been a most difficult and arduous task; that Professor Thorne has reached the impressive score of ninety-nine out of a possible hundred (which our calculation suggests) is due to his unsurpassed knowledge of the year books and other early sources. --T.F.T. PLUCKNETT, Law Quarterly Review 60:242, 246
"""Professor Thorne ... has carried out his difficult task with great skill and has prefixed an introduction which can be regarded as the most authoritative and most richly documented discussion as yet upon the problems of statutory interpretation from the later fourteenth century ... to the age of Coke. ...The Discourse inevitably cites numerous statutes and cases, and their identification has clearly been a most difficult and arduous task; that Professor Thorne has reached the impressive score of ninety-nine out of a possible hundred (which our calculation suggests) is due to his unsurpassed knowledge of the year books and other early sources."" --T.F.T. PLUCKNETT, Law Quarterly Review 60:242, 246"
Author Information
SAMUEL EDMUND THORNE [1907-1994] was the Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Legal History Emeritus at Harvard Law School and one of the 20th century's most distinguished historians of English law. In addition to this work, Thorne is known for his monumental and definitive translation of Bracton's four-volume Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, edited by George Woodbine.
