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Article
Abstract
Most readers will of course recognize the names of Edward Coke, John Selden and Matthew Hale as three of the most important judges/lawyers of the seventeenth-century England. Coke is widely known for his role as Chief Justice of King's Bench in the reign of James I and opposition leader in Parliament to Charles I as well as the author of Coke's Reports and the Institutes of the Lawes of England (4 vols. 1628-1644). John Selden was the major legal historian of his age and also a member of the 1628 parliament (and for whom the Selden Society is named after). Matthew Hale was Chief Justice of Common Pleas in the reign of Charles II and an important author of legal treatises in history and organization of the common law (see my article in the previous issue of this newsletter).
Repository Citation
Fishman, J. (2010). Coke, Selden, Hale and the Oxford English Dictionary. Unbound - An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books, 3. Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/law-faculty-scholarship/176