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Oldest law book I own: Matthew Hale's Pleas of the Crown, 1682 edition.
"Pleas of the Crown" referred to series crimes in England -- charges brought by the King in the King's Courts, as opposed to more minor offenses brought in other courts.
The copyright on the book has expired -- terms may be long, but at least books from 1682 are outside the copyright term -- and Google books has a scanned copy of the 1682 edition here: books.google.com/books?id=9NxIA…
Modern criminal law treatises begin with homicide offenses. But in 1682, Hale began with the *really* serious stuff: Heresy and witchcraft. And after that, Treason.
Btw, you can see my copy of Hale on my top picture on my Twitter feed-- it's the small book, sandwiched between Wharton's Criminal Law and the 1788 volume of Hawkins' Pleas of the Crown (Vol. 1, at least) that I blogged about here. volokh.com/2010/01/03/a-1…
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