Henry de Bracton
（重定向自Bracton, Henry de）
![Henry de Bracton was appointed to the coram rege, the advisory council of Henry III of England.](/Images/godic/202501/01/Windsor_Castle_at_Sunset_-_Nov_20063638.jpg")
![Bracton came from Devon and held circuit courts there.](/Images/godic/202501/01/OkehamptonCastle3638.jpg")
![Bracton was influenced by the Decretum of Gratian.](/Images/godic/202501/01/Treegratian3639.jpg")
![The title page of the first edition of Henry de Bracton's De legibus & consuetudinibus Angliæ (The Laws and Customs of England, 1569)[19]](/Images/godic/202501/01/Henry_de_Bracton,_De_legibus_&_consuetudinibus_Angliæ_(1st_ed,_1569,_title_page)3640.jpg")
Henry of Bracton, also Henry de Bracton, also Henrici Bracton, or Henry Bratton also Henry Bretton (c. 1210 – c. 1268) was an English cleric and jurist.
He is famous now for his writings on law, particularly De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ("On the Laws and Customs of England") and his ideas on mens rea, or criminal intent. According to Bracton, it was only through the examination of a combination of action and intention that the commission of a criminal act could be established.