Legal Classic Series
VOLUME ONE
GLANVILLE
Legal Classic Series
GLANVILLE
Introduction by Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., A.M., LL.B.
LITTLETON’S TENURES
Introduction by Eugene Wambaugh, LL.D.
BRITTON
Introduction by Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin.
MIRROUR OF JUSTICE
Introduction by Hon. William C. Robinson.
also
FLETA, and others.
A TRANSLATION
OF
GLANVILLE
BY
JOHN BEAMES, ESQ.
OF LINCOLN’S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW
TO WHICH ARE ADDED [NOTES]
Multa ignoramus, quæ nobis non laterent, si Veterum lectio
nobis esset familiaris. Macrob.
WITH AN [INTRODUCTION]
BY
JOSEPH HENRY BEALE, Jr., A.M., LL.B.
PROFESSOR OF LAW IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
JOHN BYRNE & CO.
LAW PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS
1900
Copyrighted, 1900
BY
JOHN BYRNE & COMPANY.
TO
SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY,
THE FOLLOWING WORK
IS INSCRIBED
AS A MARK OF THE HIGH RESPECT
WITH WHICH
HIS ABILITIES, AS A SENATOR,
AND HIS
TALENTS, AS AN ADVOCATE,
ARE VIEWED BY
THE TRANSLATOR.
A TREATISE
ON
THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS
OF THE
KINGDOM OF ENGLAND
COMPOSED IN THE TIME OF KING HENRY THE SECOND
The illustrious Ranulph de Glanville, who of all in that age was the most skilled in the Laws of the Realm, and the ancient Customs thereof, then holding the helm of Justice.
The present work contains those Laws and Customs only, according to which Pleas are determined in the King’s Court, the Exchequer, and before the Justices, wheresoever they may be.