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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 496 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLETA , a See also:

treatise, with the sub-See also:title seu Conzmentarius See also:juris Anglicani, on the See also:common See also:law of See also:England. It appears, from See also:internal See also:evidence, to have been written in the reign of See also:Edward I., about the See also:year r no. It is for the most See also:part a poorimitation of See also:Bracton. The author is supposed to have written it during his confinement in the See also:Fleet See also:prison, hence the name. It has been conjectured that he was one of those See also:judges who were imprisoned for malpractices by Edward I. Fleta was first printed by J. See also:Selden in 1647, with a dissertation (2nd edition, 1685).

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