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- ↑ William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book I, pp. 72 - 73
- ↑ "De Legibus" was never completed.
- ↑ Winfield, Percy H. (1925). The Chief Sources of English Legal History . Harvard University Press. Reprinted in 2000 by Beard Books. p. 274. Accessed 16 Feb. 2011.
- ↑ See, for instance, Woodbine, George E. (1910). "Four Thirteenth-Century Law Tracts". Diss. Yale University, 1910. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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