Henry de bracton biography of albert

Henry of Bracton c. According to Bracton, it was only through the examination of a combination of action and intention that the commission of a criminal act could be established. He also wrote on kingship , arguing that a ruler should be called king only if he obtained and exercised power in a lawful manner.

Also called HENRY OF BRACTON.

In his writings, Bracton manages to set out coherently the law of the royal courts through his use of categories drawn from Roman law , thus incorporating into English law several developments of medieval Roman law. Plucknett describes Bracton in this way: "Two generations after Ranulf de Glanvill we come to the flower and crown of English jurisprudence — Bracton.

He derived from either Bratton Fleming or Bratton Clovelly. Both villages are in Devon. It was only after his death that the family name appears as Bracton ; during his life, he was known as Bratton, or Bretton.

Henry de Bracton was a leading medieval English jurist and author of De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae (c.

This originally may have been Bradton, meaning "Broad Town". Bracton first appeared as a justice in From until his death in he was steadily employed as a justice of the assize in the southwestern counties, especially Somerset , Devon and Cornwall. He was a member of the coram rege , also called the coram ipso rege , later to become the King's Court.

He retired from this in , shortly before the meeting of the Mad Parliament in at Oxford. It is unknown whether his retirement was related to politics. His leaving coincided with the onset of the notorious Second Barons' War in At that time Bracton was ordered to restore to the Treasury the large store of plea rolls case records from previous trials that had been in his possession.

He was also forced to surrender the large number of rolls from his predecessors Martin Pateshull and William Raleigh , also known as William de Raley.