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 YEA YEAR-BOOKS. Le Livre des Assises et Pleas del' Corone, moves et dependants devant les Justices sibien en lour Circuits come aylours, en Temps du Roy Edward le Tiers ; avec une novelle Table des Touts les principals Cases contenus in cest Livre, et les Titles sous queux Sir Robert Brook les Pleas de ceo ab- brege : colges et proprement escrits en le Margin de chacun Plea, fol. London. 1679. "The book of Assizes and Pleas of the Crovrn, moved and depending before the justices, as vpell in their Circuits as elsewhere, in the time of Edw. III., is of great authority in law ; and so called because it princi- pally contains proceedings upon Writs of Assize of Novel Disseisin, which in those days was festinum et frequens remedium. 'Tis often quoted and referred to by most of our ancient writers." The Liber Assi- sarum and the Quadragesms are more esteemed than the preceding vol- umes of the Year-Books. "The questions are here discussed with more precision and clearness, and they contain more of those points of law that have survived to the present times. In regard to precision and clear- ness, all the reports of this reign excel those of the preceding ; but the merit of these volumes is of a peculiar kind, and has a very different appearance from what has in later times been considered as excellent in this way." The edition of 1679 contains additional Cases by the editor, Rastel. 3 Reeves, 149; Nic. Eng. Hist. Lib. 180; Pref. Lib. Ass; 1 Co, Inst., book 3, c. 4, § 318. . Les Reports del Cases en Ley, que furent argues en le Temps de les Roys Henry le IV. et Henry le V. ; avec les Notations et References al Brook, Fitz-herbert et Statham. fol. London. 1679. " The Year-Book of the reign of Henry IV., is complete ; and many Cases are likewise to be found in Jenkins and Benloe. They contain matter that bears a nearer affinity to the state of our laws at this day than the books of Edward III., and are more likely to engage the attention of a modern reader. Their form is less irksome, and the subject more intel- ligible ; they have less the style of an entry than the old Reports, and give a state of the Case, and what was said upon it, more in the way of a narrative. Notwithstanding these advantages in their favour, it is the opinion of Sir M. Hale that the Reports of this reign, as well as those of Henry V., do not arrive, either in the nature of the learning contained in them, or in the judiciousness and knowledge of the judges and plead- ers, or in any other respect, to the perfection of those in the last twelve years of Edward IlL" 3 Reeves' Hist, 254; Hale's Hist. C. L. 175. . La Premiere Part des Ans du Roy Henry le VL fol. London. 1679. 754