Littleton
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A judge of the English common pleas, in the reign of Edward IV., who was celebrated as the author of a treatise of tenures, upon which Chief Justice Coke has written an extensive comment, known as Coke upon Littleton. Littleton, otherwise called Lyttleton, was born at Frankley, in Worcestershire, in the early part of the fifteenth century; studied at the Inner Temple; received from Sir William Trussel, one of his clients, a grant of the manor of Sheriff Hales, in Staffordshire, for his life, "for his good and notable counsel;" was called to the degree of the coif, July 2, 1453, and was also appointed steward of the court of marshalsea of the king's household; received a patent as king's sergeant on May 13, 1455; and on April 17, 1466, he was made a judge of the court of common pleas. He died at Frankley, Aug. 23, 1481, and was buried in Worcester Cathedral. Foss' Judges of England.