Excerpt from An Exact Abridgment, in English, of the Eleven Books of Reports of the Learned Sir Edward Coke, Knt;, Late Lord Chief Justice of England, and of the Councell of Estate to His Majesty King James To the American edition, is added an abridgment of the twelfth and thirteenth books of the reports. These were not published until after the death of the author, and although containing some important deci sio s. Are not, in general, of as much utility to the practitioner as the former books. Many of the cases, although of importance when decided, have now be come useless to the merely practical lawyer, as well in England as in this country: the abolition of the feudal tenures and of the courts of star. Chamber and high com missions have rendered many of the decisions obsolete in that country; and in this, our never having adopted the ecclesiastical jurisdictions, and our different judicial polity, render many more inapplicable. In forming the abridgment of these two parts, reference has always been had to the importance of the decision. In the. 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."