biography
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| (?–1268)
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| biography:
| English jurist, a ‘justice itinerant’ for Henry III. He was also a priest, like most lawyers of his time. In 1264, he became archdeacon of Barnstaple and chancellor of Exeter Cathedral. His De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (On the Laws and Customs of England) is the earliest attempt at a systematic treatment of the body of English law. He enlarged the English common law with principles both from Canon and Roman law. |
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