The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England

Coke, Sir Edward. The Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; Concerning The Jurisdiction of the Courts. London: Printed for W. Clarke and Sons, 1817. Star-paged. [12], 364, [49] pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-202-6. Cloth. $85. * Reprint of the last and best edition with Butler and Hargrave's notes, and with mistakes corrected from the folio edition. For this Institute Coke gathered miscellaneous materials that were not in the first three Institutes, and included translations of ancient statutes that appeared in the earlier Institutes in the original Latin or Law French, with notes and references to later authorities cited by Butler and Hargrave. The Fourth Part outlines the authority and jurisdictions of the Court of Star-Chamber, Kings Court, Chancery, the Court of Common Pleas, Ecclesiastical Courts, Courts of Exchequer, Augmentations, Admiralty, the Justices Assise, Courts in Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Court of the Commissioners Upon the Statute of Bankrupts, the Marshalsea, the Stannaries, the Eighteen Courts of the City of London, the Court of Pipowders (concerning Markets and Fairs), the Courts of the Forest Countries, various ecclesiastical courts and many more.