The Institutes of the Lawes of England are a series of legal treatises written by Sir Edward Coke.

For example, in Roe v. Wade (1973),[3] Coke's Institutes are cited as evidence that under old English common law, an abortion performed before quickening was not an indictable offence.

In the much earlier case of United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895),[4] Coke's Institutes are quoted at some length for their definition of monopolies.

[5] Sir Edward Coke’s Institutes also had a significant influence on the development of legal principles in the American colonies.

For example, David Hume in 1764 requested it from the bookseller Andrew Millar in a cheap format for a French friend.