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COK COKE, SIR EDWARD. The Declarations and Pleadings con- tained in the Eleven Books of Sir Edward Coke's Reports, printed in English, fol. London. 1650. These Pleadings supply the defects in the Reports printed in 1658 and 1680, where the Pleadings are wanting. Bridg. Leg. Bib. 76. . The Complete Copyholder; to which is added Calthrop's Reading between the Lord of a Manor and a Copy- holder, his Tenant. Also, the Orders of keeping a Court Leet and Court Baron. 4to. London. 1650. 12mo. 1668, 1673. Best, C. J., referring to the Copyholder, says — "If this opinion of Lord Coke is warranted by law, it appears to me to be a decisive autho- rity in favour of the judgment we shall pronounce. The fact is. Lord Coke had no authority for what he states; but I am afraid we should get rid of a good deal of what is considered law in Westminster Hall, if what Lord Coke says without authority is not law. He was one of the most eminent lawyers that ever presided as a Judge in any Court of Justice ; and what is said by such a person is good evidence of what the law is, particularly when it is in conformity with justice and common sense." 2 Bing. 296. . Book of Entries ; containing approved Precedents of Courts, Declarations, Liformations, Plaints, Indictments, Bars, Replications, &c. ; and all other matters concerning the practick part of the Laws of England, fol. London. 1614, 1671. This volume was published in law French before the completion of his Reports. It is in some measure a supplement to them because it exhibits the entire record of many of the Cases therein reported. "In points of authority, Coke's Entries certainly claim the first place. Every precedent has a reference to the court, year, term, number, roll and record, where it is to be found. North's Study of Law, 86, n. . Three Tracts — L The Complete Copyholder; being a Discourse of the Antiquity and Nature of Manors and Copyholds. IL A Reading upon the Stat, of 27 Edw. L, called the Statute de finibiis levatis. IIL A Treatise of Bail and Main- prise. To which are added the Old Tenures ; also, some Notes and Additions to Coke's Commentary upon Littleton, showing how the Laws are altered since those authors wrote. By William Hawkins. 8vo. London. 1764. Most of these tracts had been several times previously published in a separate form in English and in French. Hawkins translated from the French, for his edition of the Tracts, the Reading upon the Stat, of 27 212