Sir Matthew Hale SL (1609 — 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and lawyer most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown. Hale is almost universally appreciated as an excellent judge and jurist, with his central legacy coming through his written work, published after his death. His Historia Placitorum Coronæ, dealing with capital offences against the Crown, is considered "of the highest authority", while his Analysis of the Common Law is noted as the first published history of English law and a strong influence on William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Hale's jurisprudence struck a middle-ground between Edward Coke's "appeal to reason" and John Selden's "appeal to contract", while refuting elements of Thomas Hobbes's theory of natural law.
Hale's full works include:
Contemplations, Moral and Divine (1676);
The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature (1677);
The Life and Death of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornelius Nepos; Translated out of his fragments, together with observations political and moral thereon (1677);
Pleas of the Crown; A Methodical Summary (1678);
A Discourse of the Knowledge of God and of Ourselves (1688);
On Pomponious Atticus (1689);
Origin of Mankind by Natural Propagation;
The Original Institution, Power and Jurisdiction of Parliament (1707);
Government in General, its Origin, Alteration and Trials;
The History of the Pleas of the Crown (1736);
The History of the Common Law of England (1739);
The Analysis of the Law; Being a Scheme, or Abstract, of the several Titles and Partitions of the Law of England, Digested into Method (1739); Considerations Touching the Amendment or Alterations of Laws (1787);
The Jurisdiction of the Lord's House, or, Parliament Considered According to Ancient Records (1796);
Reflections on Hobbes' Dialogue of the Law (1835)
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Hale's full works include:
Contemplations, Moral and Divine (1676);
The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature (1677);
The Life and Death of Pomponius Atticus written by his contemporary and acquaintance Cornelius Nepos; Translated out of his fragments, together with observations political and moral thereon (1677);
Pleas of the Crown; A Methodical Summary (1678);
A Discourse of the Knowledge of God and of Ourselves (1688);
On Pomponious Atticus (1689);
Origin of Mankind by Natural Propagation;
The Original Institution, Power and Jurisdiction of Parliament (1707);
Government in General, its Origin, Alteration and Trials;
The History of the Pleas of the Crown (1736);
The History of the Common Law of England (1739);
The Analysis of the Law; Being a Scheme, or Abstract, of the several Titles and Partitions of the Law of England, Digested into Method (1739); Considerations Touching the Amendment or Alterations of Laws (1787);
The Jurisdiction of the Lord's House, or, Parliament Considered According to Ancient Records (1796);
Reflections on Hobbes' Dialogue of the Law (1835)
This book published in 1713 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
