ABSTRACT
Legal imaginings manifest as legal texts, written inscriptions that become, for example, collections of statutes, legal codes, or legislation. By the end of the thirteenth century in England, a number of legal texts emerged, and such texts were intended to aid lawyers, judges, and magistrates of the English legal community in administering, yet also imagining, the law. Fleta was produced in the context of a socially and politically tenuous and troubled medieval society, and it became part of a wider network of legal texts sharing a common discourse and language. A considerable portion of Fleta captures legal imagining as it provides a compendium of statutes the exigencies for which lie in legislative reforms such as Westminster I and II. Fleta pays considerable attention to the possessory assizes. An extensive treatment of landholding comes as no surprise, especially given that ownership of land and property served, without question, the upper echelons of English feudal society.
