FLETA SEU COMMENTARIUS JURIS ANGLICANI

By SovConn | March 6, 2016

Fleta seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani (flee-t<<schwa>> syoo

kom-<<schwa>>n-tair-ee-<<schwa>>s joor-is ang-gl<<schwa>>-kay-nI).Hist. The title of an

ancient treatise on English law, composed in the 13th century and first printed in 1647. • The work

is largely derivative, being based on Bracton’s De Legibus et Consuetudinibus. The unknown

author may have been a judge or lawyer who wrote the treatise while in London’s Fleet prison. —

Often shortened to Fleta.[Blacks Law 8th]