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Edinburgh Legal History Blog

Edited by John Cairns and Paul du Plessis, University of Edinburgh School of Law.

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History of Law Blog

A journey through English legal history, starting (more or less) at the time of the Norman conquest, from Tessa Shepperson, solicitor.

The Young King Henry – crowned but not a real king? - 21 September 2016

The Constitutions of Clarendon and the Becket affair - 11 March 2012

Towns in medieval England - 4 March 2012

Medieval slavery and unfree villeinage - 26 February 2012

The Kings courts and the start of the common law - 19 February 2012

The petty assizes and the development of the jury system - 12 February 2012

The General Eyre and the Court at Westminster - 5 February 2012

The Writ of Right and the start of Henry II’s legal reforms - 29 January 2012

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The Statutes Project

The primary aim of The Statutes Project is to put the entire corpus of English / British parliamentary law online, for free, in multiple and easily reusable formats. The bulk of the content has been taken from digitized volumes over one hundred years old, and therefore out of copyright and in the public domain. From John Levin.

New Year, new social media - 4 January 2024

One hundred thousand page views - 12 September 2022

Chronological Bibliography, from Magna Carta to 1970. - 5 July 2021

The English Reports, updated. - 9 May 2021

The English Reports - 1 March 2021

Building upon Google Books. - 23 June 2020

The post Peterloo ‘Six Acts’ - 11 December 2019

Standardizing Statutes - 4 November 2019

Categories: Legal History

Edinburgh Legal History Blog

History of Law Blog

The Statutes Project