Littleton, Sir Thomas, English jurist of the 15th century; was recorder of Coventry in 1450, judge of Common Pleas 1466, and knighted in 1475; his work on “Tenures” was the first attempt to classify the law of land rights, and was the basis of the famous “Coke upon Littleton”; (d. 1481).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Little Englanders * Littré