In the Graduate Schools

The Law School has just completed a transaction with the University Library by which a collection of over 300 English legal documents of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries gathered by F.A. Crisp, F.S.A., of London, have become the property of the Law School Library.

The documents are on parchment and include charters, conveyances of land, and manor court rolls. The collection is valuable as a basis for study of the antecedents of English Common Law.

It will require more than a year to complete the cataloguing of this group of papers, which will be segregated and made available for ready use in the Law School.

Light is thrown upon the procedures of manor establishments in the documents. Land tenures, conveyances, and minor criminal procedures are included in the legal aspects covered by the collection.

Other recent acquisitions of the Law Library include a copy of the "Abbreviatorum Statutorum," printed at London in 1481, and one of the first law books ever printed in English.