Excerpt from Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases From William I. To Richard I. Preserved in Historical Records<br><br>IN the investigation, several years ago, of the English forms of action in tort from the time of Braeton, for the writer's Leading Cases on Torts, the importance of a careful study of the litigation, and especially of the writs, of the Norman and sub-norman time became very manifest; and the determination was then made to thoroughly explore the records of the age. The first fruits of the undertaking are now offered to the student.<br><br>The present volume embraces substantially all the recorded temporal, and a few ecclesiastical, litigations of the great period which begins with the Norman Conquest and ends with the beginning of the reign of Richard I. A few cases of the first half of Richard's reign are given, so as to make connexion with the Rotuli Curiae Regis, which begin with the sixth year of that reign, and thus to complete the series of English Law Reports from the time of the Conquest. The volume is not a selection of cases, but contains all of a temporal nature that are of value in the known legal monuments of the period. A few cases have, indeed, been omitted; but only be cause they were either clearly the spurious records of later times, or were manifestly incomplete.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.