The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Concerning High Treason, and Other Pleas of the Crown, and Criminal Causes
Coke's Third Institutes gives us a Treatise of great learning, andnot unworthy the hand that produced it;... Having run over allcriminal matters, and their legal punishments, he concludes with thenature of pardons and restitutions; showing how far, in each of these,our Kings can process alone, and where they want the assistance andjoint power of the Parliaments. --Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 208If Bracton first began the codification of the common law, it was Coke who completed it.... In the Institutes, ... the tradition of the common law from Bracton to Littleton, whose name Coke's commentary made famous, firmly established itself as the basis of the constitution of the Realm. --Printing and the Mind of Man 126--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.