English Legal Materials

Browse by subject and scroll down to "United Kingdom." Titles include Analysis of the Laws of England by William Blackstone (1758), Fourth Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Concerning the Jurisdiction of Courts by Edward Coke (1797), and Pleas of the Crown in Matters of Criminal and Civil: Containing a Large Collection of Modern Precedents by John Tremaine (1793-1794). Searching: Basic, Field and Advanced. May use Boolean operators; limit by subject, title, date, and section types to search.

MOML Trials is the result of a partnership between Gale and the Harvard and Yale law libraries. This digital collection includes the well known trials of Dred Scott, Lizzie Borden, Leopold and Loeb, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson as well as lesser known cases. Comprises of thousands of books and pamphlets and includes English-language titles about trials in non-commonwealth jurisdictions such as France.

MOML Legal Treatises provides full text searching of more than 21,000 works from 19th and early 20th century British Commonwealth and American law. The collection includes casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters and speeches.

Includes selected historical legal sources from the ancient world to 21st Century, including English sources. Examples include the English Bill of Rights 1689, The History of the Common Law of England by Matthew Hale 1713, and Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.

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