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Excerpt from Lectures, Elementary and Familiar, on English Law Coke's chief work is the large book, usually spoken of as Coke upon Littleton, called by himself his First Institute: a great mass of commentaries, abounding in digressions, upon a concise treatise of tenures by Littleton, who, in the reign of Edward the Fourth, was a Judge of the Common Pleas. Some of the proper evidences of the common law are the records of courts of justice. English lawyers regard with a blind reverence judicial decisions, which, when delivered after argument and deliberation, are afterwards, in similar cases, implicitly obeyed, as being most decisive as to the present state of the law. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.