The English Reports are a reprint in 178 volumes of nominate reports

Nominate reports

Nominate reports is a legal term from common law jurisdictions referring to the various published reports of English cases in various Courts from the Middle Ages to the 1860s when law reporting was officially taken over by the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting, for example Edmund F...

 of judgments of the English Courts reported between 1220 and 1866. They contain most, but not all, of the nominate reports.

They are cited using the abbreviation E.R., for example: Planche v. Colburn (1831) 172 E.R. 876.

Index chart

There is an index chart, supplied with the reports, which states where each volume of the nominate reports is to be found in the English Reports. This chart is incomplete, because it indexes each of the nominate reports under a single title, though many of those reports were known by a number of titles or by a number of abbreviations of their title. A full chart is now published by Professional Books.

Series

Volumes	Series	Period covered
1 to 11	House of Lords House of Lords The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....	1694 to 1866
12 to 20	Privy Council Privy council A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government. The word "privy" means "private" or "secret"; thus, a privy council was originally a committee of the monarch's closest advisors to give confidential advice on...  (includes Indian Appeals)	1809 to 1865
21 to 47	Court of Chancery Court of Chancery The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness of the common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including trusts, land law, the administration of the estates of...  (includes Collateral Reports)	1557 to 1865
48 to 55	Rolls Pipe Rolls The Pipe rolls, sometimes called the Great rolls, are a collection of financial records maintained by the English Exchequer, or Treasury. The earliest date from the 12th century, and the series extends, mostly complete, from then until 1833. They form the oldest continuous series of records kept by...  Court	1829 to 1865
56 to 71	Vice-Chancellors' Courts	1815 to 1865
72 to 122	Court of King's Bench (or Queen's Bench)	1378 to 1865
123 to 144	Court of Common Pleas Court of Common Pleas (England) The Court of Common Pleas, or Common Bench, was a common law court in the English legal system that covered "common pleas"; actions between subject and subject, which did not concern the king. Created in the late 12th to early 13th century after splitting from the Exchequer of Pleas, the Common...	1486 to 1865
145 to 160	Court of Exchequer Court of Exchequer Court of Exchequer may refer to:*Exchequer of Pleas, an ancient English court, that ceased to exist independently in the late nineteenth century...	1220 to 1865
161 to 167	Ecclessiastical	1752 to 1857
ditto.	Admiralty	1776 to 1840
ditto.	Probate and Divorce	1858 to 1865
168 and 169	Court for Crown Cases Reserved Court for Crown Cases Reserved The Court for Crown Cases Reserved was an English appellate court for criminal cases established in 1848 to hear references from the trial judge. It did not allow a retrial, only judgment on a point of law. Neither did it create a right of appeal and only a few selected cases were heard every...	1743 to 1865
170 to 176	Nisi Prius Nisi prius Nisi prius is a historical term in English law. In the nineteenth century, it came to be used to denote generally all legal actions tried before judges of the King's Bench Division and in the early twentieth century for actions tried at assize by a judge given a commission. Used in that way, the...	1688 to 1867
177 and 178	Index of Cases	N/A

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