Bibliography of law

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This list is a legal bibliography.

A book can be included on this list only if it meets these criteria:

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(1) The book is already in an existing legal bibliography that is a reliable source.
(2) Although the book is not in such a bibliography, at least one reliable source says the book is suitable for inclusion in such a bibliography.

In other words, this bibliography includes books that only reliable, authoritative sources have said must, should be, or could be in a reliable legal bibliography.

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Halsbury's Laws of England is a uniquely comprehensive encyclopaedia of law, and provides the only complete narrative statement of law in England and Wales. It has an alphabetised title scheme covering all areas of law, drawing on authorities including Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom, Measures of the Welsh Assembly, UK case law and European law. It is written by or in consultation with experts in the relevant field.

<i>Commentaries on the Laws of England</i> Influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone

The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765–1770. The work is divided into four volumes, on the rights of persons, the rights of things, of private wrongs and of public wrongs.

Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales provides updated texts of every Public General Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Measure of the Welsh Assembly, or Church of England Measure currently in force in England and Wales, as well as a number of private and local Acts, with detailed annotations to each section and Schedule of each Act. It incorporates the effects of new Acts of Parliament and secondary legislation into existing legislation to provide a consolidated "as amended" text of the current statute book.

Giles Jacob was a British legal writer whose works include a well-received law dictionary that became the most popular and widespread law dictionary in the newly independent United States. Jacob was the leading legal writer of his era, according to the Yale Law Library.

Citation of United Kingdom legislation includes the systems used for legislation passed by devolved parliaments and assemblies, for secondary legislation, and for prerogative instruments. It is relatively complex both due to the different sources of legislation in the United Kingdom, and because of the different histories of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom.

Halsbury's Statutory Instruments is the standard work of authority on delegated legislation in England and Wales. It is one of the major legal works published by LexisNexis Butterworths. Primarily used by legal practitioners and law students, it provides details of every statutory instrument of general application currently in force in England and Wales, either in full text of as an authoritative summary.

Books of authority is a term used by legal writers to refer to a number of early legal textbooks that are excepted from the rule that textbooks are not treated as authorities by the courts of England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Law book</span> Book regarding law

A law book is a book about law. It is possible to make a distinction between "law books" on the one hand, and "books about law" on the other. This distinction is "useful". A law book is "a work of legal doctrine". It consists of "law talk", that is to say, propositions of law. "The first duty of a law book is to state the law as it is, truly and accurately, and then the reason or principle for it as far as it is known". The "first requisite in a law-book is perfect accuracy". A "law book is supposed to state what the law is rather than what it is not". "One great desideratum in a law book is facility of reference". A "list of law books and related materials" is a legal bibliography.

The Abbreviacion of Statutis (1519), of which fifteen editions appeared before 1625, is a book by John Rastell. It, and Termes de la Ley, are the best known of his legal works.

A New Abridgment of the Law is a legal book compiled by Mathew Bacon. The first edition dates from 1736, and the most recent English edition in 1832.

Un Abridgment des plusiers Cases et Resolutions del Common Ley, Alphabeticalment Digest desouth severall Titles is a law book written in Law French by Henry Rolle (1589–1656). The most recent edition was published in 1668, with an English-language preface.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Viner (jurist)</span> English jurist

Charles Viner was an English jurist, known as the author of Viner's Abridgment, and the benefactor of the Vinerian chair and the Vinerian Scholarship at the University of Oxford.

A General Abridgment of the Common Law, alphabetically digested under proper titles is a book by Knightley D'Anvers.

Ans du Roy Richard II., hors des les Abridgments de Statham, Fitzherbert et Brooke is the title of a collection of law reports, compiled by Richard Bellewe, of cases decided between approximately 1378 and 1400. For the purpose of citation their name may be abbreviated to "Bel". They are reprinted in volume 72 of the English Reports.

Where to Find Your Law is a book by Ernest Arthur Jelf, M.A. It is a bibliography of law.

Statutes in Force was the fourth revised edition of the statutes. Publication began in 1972. It was completed in 1981.

Current Law Statutes Annotated, published between 1994 and 2004 as Current Law Statutes, contains annotated copies of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed since 1947 and Acts of the Scottish Parliament passed since 1999. It is published by Sweet & Maxwell in London and by W Green in Edinburgh. It was formerly also published by Stevens & sons in London.

A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations, formerly Sweet & Maxwell's Legal Bibliography, is a bibliography of law published in London by Sweet & Maxwell.

Information Sources in Law is a book.

Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England is an encyclopedia of English law edited by Alexander Wood Renton and (captain) Maxwell Alexander Robertson. The first edition was published as Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, Being a New Abridgment, in thirteen volumes, from 1897 to 1903. The second edition was published as Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, with Forms and Precedents, in seventeen volumes, from 1906 to 1919. Volumes one to five of the third edition, revised, edited by Ernest Arthur Jelf, were published from 1938 to 1940.

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  2. 1 2 3 Hines, W.D. (1990). English legal history : a bibliography and guide to the literature. With contributions by R.W. Ireland, P.J. Rawlings, C.P. Rodgers. New York: Garland Pub. ISBN   978-0824042998.
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  5. ↑ Jacobstein, J. Myron (1982). Buckwalter, Robert L. (ed.). Law books in print : books in English publ. throughout the world and in print through 1981, volume 1 (4. ed.). London: Glanville. ISBN   9780878020157.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 James, John S.; Maxwell, Leslie F. (1955). A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations, v. 1: English law to 1800, including Wales, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man (2nd ed.). Sweet & Maxwell.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Maxwell, William Harold (1957). A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations, v. 2: English law from 1801 to 1954, including Wales, the Channel Islands and the Island of Man (2nd ed.). Sweet & Maxwell.
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  9. ↑ Soule, C C. The Lawyer's Reference Manual of Law Books and Citations. 1883. pp 201 & 311.
  10. ↑ Pechota, Szladits' Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law: Books and Articles in English 1984-1986, p 45
  11. ↑ Bowker's Law Books and Serials in Print. R. R. Bowker. ISBN   9780835232333. 1992. Volume 1. Page 408.
  12. ↑ Paul O'Higgins, Martin Partington and Sally Hughes. Social Security Law in Britain and Ireland: A Bibliography. Mansell. 1986. Google Books
  13. ↑ Jelf, Where to Find Your Law, pp 36 & 48
  14. ↑ Maxwell, Leslie F.; Maxwell, William Harold (1957). A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations, v. 5: Scottish law (2nd ed.). Sweet & Maxwell.

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