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 Reports in the Reign of Henry IV. and V. ABBREVIATIONS. 45 Wright's R. Wright's Reports. Wright Fr. See. Wright on Friendly Societies. Wyatt. P. R. Wyatt's Practical Register. Wythe. Wythe's Chancery Reports. X. 1, 9, 6, 4.(s) Book I., Title 9, Chapter G, Paragraph 4, of the Decretals of Pope Gregory 9. Y. Yr. £.(") Year Books. 1. E. 2. Maynard's Edward II. 1. E. 3. Reports in the Reign of Edward III., (3 vols.) 1. Ass. Book of Assizes in the Reign of Edward III. 1. H. 4. . 1. H. 5. 1. H. 6. Reports in the Reign of Henry VI. (2 vols.) (?) The letter X. is a conventional sign, denoting the Decretals of Gregory IX., or that the matter cited is extra or out of the Decree of Gratian. This Gratian was a Bolognese Monk, who, about the year 1149, compiled the Canons anJ Constitu- tions of the numerous Ecclesiastical Councils, previously promulgated. The title he gave his work, was " Concord/a discordantium Canonum;'^ but it was always known by the name Becretum Gratian. Mr. Burn, in the Preface to his Eccle- siastical Law, seems to have overlooked the fact that Gratian's compilation was prepared about eighty years anterior to the collection of Decretals, made under the auspices of Gregory IX. The Decretals are canonical epistles, written by the Popes alone, or by the Pope and Cardinals, at the instance of some one or more, for the ordering and determining of some matter in controversy ; and have the autho- rity of a law in themselves. Five books of Decretals were collected and published under the Pontificate of Gregory IX., about the year 1231. Seventy years after this publication, under the auspices of Boniface VIII., a sixth book of Decretals was compiled, and is thus referred to : VI. 3, 4, 23. Third book. Title 4, and Chapter 23, of the sixth Book of the Decretals, by Pope Boniface VIII. Another collection was made and pub- lished by Pope Clement the V., about the year 1298, and from him called the Clementines. Another Book of Decretals, and a Book of Institutes, were added by Gregory XIII., under whose sanction, in 1580, the Corpus Juris Canorazci, containing all the preceding Canon Law, was published. See Eccl. Com. Rep. 20. 1 Burns' Eccl. Law, Pref. S3. 1 Kaufman's Mackeldy, 82. No. IV. N. S. Law Magazine, 23. (h) The Year Books are cited by referring to the year of each King's Reign, with the initial letter of his name and the page and numberof the p/ar(7u77i, except Liber Assisarium. In addition to this, there is commonly prefixed the initial letter of the Term of the Court, c. g. M. 4, H. 7, 18, 10. Michalmas Term 4th, Henry VII., Page 18, Placitum 10. The paging of the Year Book, for the first ten years of Edward III., varies in different editions. In one edition they are numbered progressively through the volume, making 542 pages ; and in another, the cases of each year are separately paged as in other parls of the Year Books. See Preface to Jackson on Real Actions, 7 ; Wallace's Old Reporters, 7. 2d ed.