Name Ferdinando Pulton | Role Writer | |
Died 1618, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Books De Pace Regis Et Regni: Viz. A Treatise Declaring Vvhich be the Great and Generall Offences of the Realme, and the Chiefe Impediments of the Peace of the King and Kingdome, as Treasons, Homicides, and Felonies ... and by Whom and what Means the Sayd Offences, and the Offendors Therein are to Bee Restrained, Repressed, Or Punished. ... Collected Out of the Reports of the Common Lawes of this Realme, and of the Statutes in Force, and Out of the Painfull Workes of the Reuerend Iudges, Sir Anthonie Fitzharbert, Sir Robert Brooke, Sir William Stanford, Sir Iames Dyer, Sir Edward Coke, Knights, and Other Learned Writers of Our Lawes, by Ferdinando Pulton of Lincolnes Inne, Esquier | ||
Ferdinando Pulton (1536–1618) was an English legal writer, the first to attempt a comprehensive book treating criminal law. This was his De pace Regis et regni, first published in 1609.
Pulton belonged to Lincoln's Inn, but he was a Roman Catholic, so that at that time a legal career was denied to him. He was a student at Christ's College, University of Cambridge.
He wrote also a Collection of Sundrie Statutes (1618). This is credited with making the term Star Chamber common in use. An earlier work was the 1577 Abstract of all the penall Statutes.
He resided in Bourton, Buckinghamshire.
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