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AALT: National Archives documents On-Line ... >>

The Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project website presents, free of charge, digital images of historical documents from the U.K. National Archives from 1218 to 1650.  Since this list was last notified at launch in January 2007, the site has grown from 400,000 frames of material to 1.33 million frames. The primary (but not only) document series covered are the CP40s (court of common pleas plea rolls), KB27s (court of king's bench plea rolls), E159s (exchequer memoranda rolls), E368s (exchequer memoranda rolls), C33s (chancery orders and decrees), and CP25(1)s (the feet of fines). 

Ancient Legal History ... >>


Avalon Project at the Yale Law School ... >>

(Historic Documents)

Bracton's Laws and Customs of England (1210-1268) ... >>


Famous Trials ... >>


Forum Histriae Luris ... >>

(Humboldt University, Berlin)

Geelong Lawyers Collection ... >>

"The Geelong Lawyers' Collection is a rich primary source relating to individual lawyers and legal institutions in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The collection aims to preserve the history of the legal profession and to stimulate research and publication. "

Guide to Legal History Resources on the Web ... >>

(University of Texas)

Legal History Links ... >>

(Cambridge Law School)

Medieval Legal History ... >>

(Fordham University)

The Making of Modern Law ... >>

Derived from two essential reference collections for historical and more contemporary legal studies the Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, published by Thomson Gale imprint Primary Source Microfilm - The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works. It provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of legal history and allows a vast segment of the literature of law to be quickly searched via keyword access by faculty members and students. With full-text search capabilities, researchers can conduct precise searches and comparative research in every area of law.
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