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Fleta, seu Commentarius Juris Anglicani, a treatise upon the whole law, as it stood at the time this author wrote, which serves as an appendix, and often as a commentary, to Bracton. The author was wholly an imitator.

The book was written after the thirteenth year of Edward I., and not much later. The occasion of the title of it is given by the author himself, who says it was written during his confinement in the Fleet prison. From that circumstance it has been conjectured that he might be one of those lawyers who, for malpractice in their office as judges, were punished with imprisonment and pecuniary penalties, 2 Reeves, p. 279.