Statute of Westminster

1. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 authority 1 citation

   consensv obligationes. (2)

   The statute is cited by name and regnal year as the source of the English analogy.

   To supply such deficiencies the statute of Westminster, 13 Edward I, had directed the clerks in chancery to frame new writs whenever the old scheme of writs contained no remedy for a wrong resembling in its features other wrongs for which a remedy was provided.

2. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 1 authority 1 citation · 4 passages

   ch. 10 4 passages anchored here

   Named directly and quoted on amercement rules.

   “Forasmuch as the common fine and amercement of the whole county in Eyre of the justices for false judgments, or for other trespass, is unjustly assessed by sheriffs and baretors in the shires, so that the sum is many times increased, and the parcels otherwise assessed than they ought to be, to the damage of the people, which be many times paid to the sheriffs and baretors, which do not acquit the payers;

3. The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 neutral 1 citation

   iv.: enemies in the gate

   Explicitly named and dated, described neutrally as a compromise rather than endorsed or refuted.

   The later Statute of Westminster (ad 1275), which defined the scope of actions on the case, represents not a simple movement of expansion, but a compromise between advanced ideas and obstructive archaism.

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

   ch. 51

   Named directly as the statute credited with transforming the forms of action.

   The great instrument of transformation was the introduction of actions on the case by the Statute of Westminster.

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