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Studies in Bracton — An Addendum1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

H. G. Richardson
H. G. Richardson*
Affiliation:
Goudhurst, Kent
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Among the sources of Old English law upon which Bracton drew was the Instituta Cnuti, a twelfth-century version of Cnut's code, which that king is believed to have issued in 1027, or perhaps nearer 1020, under the inspiration of Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester. So far as I have observed, Bracton made direct use of this source only when he was discussing theft, and he drew his scanty material from two widely separated articles of his original. The parallel passages are set out below, the words borrowed by Bracton being italicized.

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Miscellany
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Traditio , Volume 14 , 1958 , pp. 399 - 400
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Copyright © Fordham University Press 

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References

2 Liebermann, , Gesetze der Angelsachsen I 278–367. For the influence of Wulfstan, see Whitelock, D. in English Historical Review 63 (1948) 433–52, especially p. 449.Google Scholar

3 Woodbine II 427–8. Google Scholar

4 Gesetze III 197 (22).Google Scholar

5 Ibid. 213.Google Scholar

6 Richardson and Sayles, Select Cases of Procedure without Writ (Selden Society 1941) cxxxiii. Google Scholar