The Mirror of Justices explained

The Mirror of Justices, also known in Anglo-Norman as Le mireur a justices^[1] and in Latin as Speculum Justitiariorum, is a law textbook^[2] of the early 14th century, written in Anglo-Norman French and traditionally attributed to Andrew Horn (or Horne). The original manuscript is in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (manuscript identifier CCCC MS 258).^[3]

The work was published in 1642, based on a copy owned by Francis Tate and the Cambridge manuscript.^[4] In 1646 it was translated into English and printed together with Anthony Fitzherbert's The Diversity of Courts and their Jurisdictions. This version was republished in 1659^[5] and 1768.^[6] In 1895 the Selden Society published an edition of the work containing the Anglo-Norman text with a parallel English translation, and an extensive introduction by Frederic William Maitland.

See also

• Norman yoke

Notes and References

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2. In Doe dem. Burtwhistle v. Vardill. ER. on. 1840. 867. 133. 148. 149–150. 6 Bing. (N.C.) 385 at 388. House of Lords. UK., Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas sitting as a judge of the House of Lords, said the Mirror of Justices was "perhaps the very earliest of our text books" and cited it for the "admitted principle" that "the common law only taketh him to be a son whom the marriage proveth to be so".
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