This bibliography, compiled by Christopher Coval in , lists articles and books that discuss the Year Books and the Abridgements or employ them as principal sources.
The bibliography will be supplemented and extended in due course. All contributions and corrections are welcome. Description: A lengthy series of articles tracing the history of the enforcement of charitable gifts. Dwight explains that the Court of Chancery could enforce charitable gifts by enforcing all types of feoffments to uses and wills. He also discusses Elizabethan statutes and charitable gifts of personal property. Dwight relies primarily on the Year Books; he translates and discusses numerous cases.
Description: Arguing that the concept of seisin was not exclusive to real estate at early common law. Extensive citation, translation and discussion of Year Book cases. Maitland complains about the quality of the binding, but has nice things to say about the inside of the book. Theodore W. Dwight Inaccessible Law , Columbia Jurist, vol. Description: A short overview of the Year Books trying to generate interest in them. An announcement of his plan to send occasional translations to the Columbia Jurist to make the Year Books more accessible to lawyers and historians.
Dwight Year Books , Columbia Jurist, vol. Description: Description of the contents of the Year Books, their unique and interesting features. Dwight From the Year Books. Bertrand Clover, Jr. John W. Description: An article exploring the origins of modern contract doctrine in the action of debt, covenant and assumpsit.
Particular attention paid to the origin of consideration, arguing that the doctrine was borrowed from equity. Description: Analyzing the extent to which the common law protected possession against proprietary rights. Part II relies on the Year Books to demonstrate that law became less favorable to adverse possessors in the 13th and 14th centuries.
