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Excerpt from Cambridge Essays: Contributed by Member of the University, 1857 The law of England is composed of three principal branches, of very unequal authority. These are, Statutes, Reports, and d104-books. The Statutes begin from Magna Charta (9 H. And extend to the present year. The Reports are records of the decisions of the Courts upon particular states of facts, involving sometimes a more or less distinct enuncia tion of the principles upon which they proceed. Including the early series, called the Year-books, they cover a period ex tending from the reign of Edward II. Downwards. The d104-books, of which Braeton is, perhaps, the oldest now in creditfl6 were written by a variety of private authors, from the reign of Henry III., and are of all shades of value, - the opinions of Littleton, Coke, Sheppard, and some other writers, being of almost as high authority as the express enactments of Parliament whilst others - especially the later oneswneither have, nor claim, any independent weight, and aim merely at the merit of being indexes, more or less accurate and con venient, to works of authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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