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Littleton, a judge of the Common Pleas in the reign of Edward IV., who composed a book of tenures for the use of his son, to whom it is addressed. Sir Edward Coke's Commentary upon Littleton, 'Not the name of the author only, but of the law itself,' is one of the most renowned and authoritative works on English law in existence.