English Reports


The English Reports is a collection of judgments of the higher English Courts between 1220 and 1866.

Overview

The reports are a selection of most nominate reports of judgments of the higher English Courts between 1220 and 1866. They reproduce many reports not from their original editions but from dependable, although not always verbatim, later editions and give a nominate report citation.
It was published in 178 volumes gradually from 1900 to 1932 by Stevens & Sons in London and by William Green & Sons in Edinburgh.

Citation of these reports

For citation in most Commonwealth countries it is cited in written form as E.R., as in Planché v. Colburn 131 E.R. 305.
The compendium is sometimes cited in U.S. courts, where it is normally cited by using the original nominate report citation then Eng. Rep., as in Planché v. Colburn, 8 Bing. 14, 131 Eng. Rep. 305.

Index chart

Its 1930 index chart details where each volume of the nominate reports is drawn upon for the 13-category series the work creates. This named each by their most popular title — many bore several and were frequently and variously abbreviated. A full, disambiguatory chart is published by Professional Books.

Series

VolumesSeriesPeriod covered
1 to 11House of Lords1694 to 1866
12 to 20Privy Council 1809 to 1865
21 to 47Court of Chancery 1557 to 1865
48 to 55Rolls Court1829 to 1865
56 to 71Vice-Chancellors' Courts1815 to 1865
72 to 122Court of King's Bench 1378 to 1865
123 to 144Court of Common Pleas1486 to 1865
145 to 160Court of Exchequer1220 to 1865
161 to 167Ecclesiastical1752 to 1857
ditto.Admiralty1776 to 1840
ditto.Probate and Divorce1858 to 1865
168 and 169Court for Crown Cases Reserved1743 to 1865
170 to 176Nisi Prius1688 to 1867
177 and 178Index of CasesN/A