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The English Reports is a collection of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866.
Full text of the English Reports on CommonLII
Legal history of England
The English Reports is a collection of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866.
Overview
The reports are a selection of mostnominate reports Nominate reports, also known as nominative reports, named reports and private reports, is a legal term from common-law jurisdictions referring to the various published collections of reports of English cases in various courts from the Middle Ages t ...
of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866.Glanville Williams
Glanville Llewelyn Williams (15 February 1911 – 10 April 1997) was a Welsh legal scholar who was the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978 and the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University ...
, Learning the Law, 11th Edition, 1982, Stevens, p.34; 13th Edition, 2006, Sweet and Maxwell, p.36 They reproduce many reports not from their original editions but from dependable, although not always verbatim, later editions and give a nominate report citation.
It was published in 178 volumes gradually from 1900 to 1932 by Stevens & Sons in London and by William Green & Sons in Edinburgh.
Citation of these reports
For citation in mostCommonwealth
A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has been synonymous with "republic". The noun "commonwealth", meaning "public welfare, general good or advantage", dates from the ...
countries it is cited in written form as ''E.R.'', as in ''Planché'' v. ''Colburn'' (1831) 131 E.R. 305. Sometimes the original nominate report citation is also used in parallel.
The compendium is sometimes cited in U.S. courts, where it is normally cited by using the original nominate report citation then Eng. Rep., as in ''Planché v. Colburn'', 8 Bing. 14, 131 Eng. Rep. 305 (C.P. 1831).
Index chart
Its 1930 index chart details where each volume of the nominate reports is drawn upon for the 13-category series the work creates. This named each by their most popular title — many bore several and were frequently and variously abbreviated.Glanville Williams,op. cit.
''Op. cit.'' is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase ' or ''opere citato'', meaning "the work cited" or ''in the cited work'', respectively.
Overview
The abbreviation is used in an endnote or footnote to refer the reader to a cited work, standing ...
A full, disambiguatory chart is published by Professional Books.
Series
See also
* Law report: England and WalesFurther reading
* W. T. S. Daniel, ''History of the Origin of the Law Reports'' (London, 1884) * Index Chart issued for the English Reports, 1930, Stevens & Sons Ltd. (London), W. Green & Son, Ltd. (Edinburgh) * O. Hood Phillips,A First Book of English Law
''A First Book of English Law'' is a book originally written by Owen Hood Phillips and subsequently edited by him and Anthony Hugh Hudson. It was published by Sweet and Maxwell. F.R. Crane praised it for its "lucidity, accuracy, brevity and read ...
, 4th ed, 1960, Sweet and Maxwell
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Legal history of England