The English Reports is a collection of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866.
The reports are a selection of most nominate reports of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866.[1] They reproduce many reports not from their original editions but from dependable, although not always verbatim, later editions and give a nominate report citation.[1]
It was published in 178 volumes gradually from 1900[2] to 1932[3] by Stevens & Sons in London and by William Green & Sons in Edinburgh.
For citation in most Commonwealth countries it is cited in written form as "ER", as in Planché v Colburn (1831) 131 ER 305. Sometimes the original nominate report citation is also used in parallel.[4]
The compendium is sometimes cited in U.S. courts, where it is normally cited by using the original nominate report citation then Eng. Rep., as in Planché v. Colburn, 8 Bing. 14, 131 Eng. Rep. 305 (C.P. 1831).
Its 1930 index chart details where each volume of the nominate reports is drawn upon for the 13-category series the work creates.[5] This named each by their most popular title - many bore several and were frequently and variously abbreviated.[6] A full, disambiguatory chart is published by Professional Books.
| Volumes | Series | Period covered[7] |
| 1 to 11 | House of Lords | 1694 to 1866 |
| 12 to 20 | Privy Council (includes Indian Appeals) | 1809 to 1865[8] |
| 21 to 47 | Court of Chancery (includes Collateral Reports) | 1557 to 1865[9] |
| 48 to 55 | Rolls Court | 1829 to 1865 |
| 56 to 71 | Vice-Chancellors' Courts | 1815 to 1865 |
| 72 to 122 | Court of King's Bench (or Queen's Bench) | 1378 to 1865[10] |
| 123 to 144 | Court of Common Pleas | 1486 to 1865 |
| 145 to 160 | Court of Exchequer | 1220 to 1865 |
| 161 to 167 | Ecclesiastical | 1752 to 1857 |
| ditto. | Admiralty | 1776 to 1840 |
| ditto. | Probate and Divorce | 1858 to 1865 |
| 168 and 169 | Crown Cases Reserved | 1743 to 1865[11] |
| 170 to 176 | Nisi Prius | 1688 to 1867 |
| 177 and 178 | Index of Cases | N/A |