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Woodbine, George E. Four Thirteenth Century Law Tracts. A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1910. vi, 183 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-29294. ISBN 1-58477-007-4. Cloth. $50. Following a detailed introduction in English, this important source contains four tracts in Law French, "the Fet Asaver, a tract on procedure probably by Hengham; the Cum sit necessarium or Modus Componendi Brevium, and the Exceptiones ad Cassandum Brevia, complementary tracts on writs." Holdsworth, Sources and Literature of English Law 34.