Statute of Westminster the Second

1. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 10

   Invoked as statutory authority for the analysis of Replevin's procedural anomaly.

   The second chapter of the Statute of Westminster the Second is aimed at certain contrivances by which tenants contrived to defeat the lord’s remedy by distress;

2. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 56

   The statute is cited as the authoritative legal basis permitting the Chancery's limited creation of new writs.

   A use of this permission, which we are apt to think a tardy and over-cautious use, but which may well have been all that Parliament would have suffered, gave us in course of time one new form of action, namely, trespass upon the special case, and this again threw out branches which came to be considered as distinct forms of action, namely, assumpsit and trover.

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