COMMENTARY UPON LITTLETON.

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

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

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

MART.

CICERO.

HÆC EGO GRANDEVUS POSUI TIBI, CANDIDE LECTOR,

Authore EDWARDO COKE, Milite.

REVISED AND CORRECTED,

With Additions of NOTES, REFERENCES, and PROPER TABLES,

By FRANCIS HARGRAVE and CHARLES BUTLER, Esqrs. 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.

By CHARLES BUTLER ESQ. one of His Majesty's Counsel.

FIRST AMERICAN,

From the Nineteenth London Edition, corrected.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

ROBERT H. SMALL, MINOR STREET.

1853.