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Index and Paraphrase of
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The Ames Foundation is sponsoring a
project to create a free, publicly-searchable database containing an index
and paraphrase of all printed Year Book reports (cases argued and determined
in English law courts between 1268 and 1535). There are now 22,004
records in this database, which includes all case reports printed in the
entire chronological series of Year Books. All records in the database
identify the opening line of text (incipit),
the length of the report, a full citation, and a unique identifying number,
and, where possible, the type of lawsuit (writ), the names of parties, names
of other persons and places mentioned, cross-references to the Abridgements
and to related cases, and statutes cited or quoted. All cases before
1481 name every justice and lawyer who spoke or was mentioned in the
report. All cases before 1481 that have never before been translated
from the original Anglo-Norman law French have been substantially
paraphrased. Full lists of keywords and descriptions of the process and
pleading are given for all case reports from 1399 through 1481. Some
records index and paraphrase cases that are only printed in the Abridgements
under alphabetical headings, and more of these Abridgement cases will be
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This page last modified:
04/20/08. Contact Rosemary Spang with comments. |