List of early landmark court cases explained

This is a list of early significant and precedent setting judicial decisions in English law:

Anglo Norman cases

Common Law cases (post 1154)

Notes and References

  1. Melville Madison Bigelow, Placita Anglo-normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I. Preserved in Historical Records (Soule and Bugbee, 1881) pxxi.
  2. Van Caenegem, ENGLISH LAWSUITS FROM WILLIAM I TO RICHARD I Vol.I. William I to Stephen.(Selden Society, 2010).
  3. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27295244_ITM Extraordinary privilege: the trial of Penenden Heath and the Domesday inquest
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=mBRouRJrhz0C&dq=1082+odo+bayeux&pg=PA117 The Normans: The History of a Dynasty
  5. http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-820793-X.pdf The Justification of the Conquest
  6. Melville Madison Bigelow, Placita Anglo-normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I. Preserved in Historical Records (Soule and Bugbee, 1881) p10.
  7. Mike Ibeji, Treachery of the Earls, by Mike Ibeji, from "BBC History of the Normans".
  8. Edward Augustus Freeman (1901). A Short History of the Norman Conquest of England. Page 113-114.
  9. Melville Madison Bigelow, Placita Anglo-normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I. Preserved in Historical Records (Soule and Bugbee, 1881). p36.
  10. Melville Madison Bigelow, Placita Anglo-Normannica: law cases from William I to Richard I p16.
  11. http://swarb.co.uk/case-xxxviii-mich-13-jac-b-r-furrer-v-snelling,-dyer,-55-1220 summary of Furrer v Snelling
  12. [T. F. T. Plucknett]
  13. R v Roger, St Nicholas, 4 Edw. II, before Payn Tibotot, justiciar of Chester (8 December 1310).
  14. [Stapleton v Snayth]
  15. Haxey's case (1397) Rotuli Parliamentorum (iii) 434.
  16. Adams and Stephens, Select Documents of English Constitutional History(1930)
  17. Sir John Baker, Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History:Private Law to 1750 (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed, 2010) 610.
  18. Ian Fitzharris, Owners of dwelling liable for escape of fire to neighbour’s property arising from negligence of building contracto r.
  19. Courtney Stanhope Kenny, A Selection of Cases Illustrative of the English Law of Tort (Cambridge University Press, 2014) p589.
  20. Hulle v Oryng 1466 YB Mich 6 Ed 4, 7a pl 18 is;(1466).
  21. http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/torts/torts-keyed-to-epstein/strict-liability-and-negligence-historic-and-analytic-foundations/the-thorns-case/ The Thorns Case
  22. Luckers Case CASE LXX, Tr. 8 Jac. B. R. 10 Co. 130 L,, 13 1 it. 2 Cr. 424,
  23. Williams . David . 2003 . Gold, The Case of Mines (1568) and the Waitangi Tribunal . 7 . 2 . 157 . Australian Journal of Legal History . 2006-12-20.
  24. Book: Blainey, Geoffrey . Geoffrey Blainey

    . Geoffrey Blainey . The Rush That Never Ended . registration . 1963 . Melbourne University Press . 20–21 . 0-522-84557-6.

  25. William Nelson, An Abridgment of the Common Law (Forgotten Books, 2017).
  26. David Hoffman, A Course of Legal Study: Respectfully Addressed to the Students of Law in the United States (Sagwan Press, 2015)
  27. Sir Edward Coke, The reports of Sir Edward Coke in thirteen parts.J. Butterworth and Son, 1826 page 83
  28. Joseph Chitty, A treatise on the game laws and on fisheries. W Clarke 1812 page 834