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Littleton on Tenures

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Also known as: “Treatise on Tenures”

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In Sir Thomas Littleton
…was a jurist, author of Littleton on Tenures (or Treatise on Tenures), the first important English legal text neither written in Latin nor significantly influenced by Roman (civil) law. An edition (1481 or 1482?) by John Lettou and William de Machlinia was doubtless the first book on English law to…
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