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Fleta
From LoveToKnow 1911
FLETA, a treatise, with the sub-title juris Anglicani, on the common law of England. It appears, from internal evidence, to have been written in the reign of Edward I., about the year 1290.
FLETA. The title of an ancient law book, supposed to have been written by a judge who was confined in the Fleet prison. It is written in Latin, and is divided into six books. The author lived in the reigns of Ed. II. and Ed. III. See lib. 2, cap.
They are mentioned in Glanville, Bracton, Fleta, and Britton; and a case turning upon the party's right to appear by attorney, is reported. In France such appearances were first allowed by letters patent of Philip le Bel, A. D. 1290.
NARRATOR.
A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. ... more
NARROW SEAS,
English law. Those seas which adjoin the coast of England. Bac. Ab. Prerogative, B 3. ... more ...
 See also: Law, Cause, Term, Court, Person
  
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