Institutes of Coke

Institutes of Coke
A treatise on the common law which was written in four volumes by Sir Edward Coke. The first volume is an extensive comment on the treatise on tenures which was compiled by Judge Littleton in the reign of Edward the Fourth, and is cited as Coke's Littleton, abbreviated "Co. Litt." or "1 Inst." The second volume is a comment on many old acts of parliament. The third is a treatise of the pleas of the crown; and the fourth is an account of the several species of courts. The three volumes following the first are cited respectively as "2 Inst.," "3 Inst.," and "4 Inst."

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