FLETA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FLETA. The title of an ancient law book, supposed to have been written by a 
  judge who was confined in the Fleet prison. It is written in Latin, and is 
  divided into six books. The author lived in the reigns of Ed. II. and Ed. 
  III. See lib. 2, cap. 66, Sec.  Item quod nullus; lib. 1, cap. 20, Sec.  qui 
  coeperunt, pref. to 10th Rep. Edward II. was crowned, A. D. 1306. Edward 
  III. was crowned 1326, and reigned till A. D. 1377. During this period the 


  English law was greatly improved, and the lawyers and judges were very 
  learned. Hale's Hist. C. L. 173. Blackstone 4 Com. 427, says, of this work, 
  "that it was for the most part law, until the alteration of tenures took 
  place." The same remark he applies to Britton and Bingham.