4-692: The English Reports is a collection of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866. The reports are a selection of most nominate reports of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866. They reproduce many reports not from their original editions but from dependable, although not always verbatim, later editions and give a nominate report citation. It was published in 178 volumes gradually from 1900 to 1932 by Stevens & Sons in London and by William Green & Sons in Edinburgh. For citation in most Commonwealth countries it
8-471: Is cited in written form as "ER", as in Planché v Colburn (1831) 131 ER 305. Sometimes the original nominate report citation is also used in parallel. The compendium is sometimes cited in U.S. courts, where it is normally cited by using the original nominate report citation then Eng. Rep. , as in Planché v. Colburn , 8 Bing. 14, 131 Eng. Rep. 305 (C.P. 1831). Its 1930 index chart details where each volume of
12-707: The Middle Ages to the 1860s. Most (but not all) are reprinted in the English Reports . They are described as "nominate" (named) in order to distinguish them from the Year Books , which are anonymous. An example of a nominate report is Edmund F. Moore 's Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of His Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council on Appeal from
16-536: The nominate reports is drawn upon for the 13-category series the work creates. This named each by their most popular title — many bore several and were frequently and variously abbreviated. A full, disambiguatory chart is published by Professional Books . Nominate reports The nominate reports , also known as nominative reports , named reports and private reports , are the various published collections of law reports of cases in English courts from
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