Synopses & Reviews
This book traces, in outline, the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The Introduction has become a standard work on the subject. It has now been updated and improved in consequence of the rapid pace of research in legal history over recent years, which has made this new edition a necessity.
Table of Contents
PART ONE
1.: Law and Custom in Early Britain
2.: Origins of the Common Law
3.: The Superior Courts of Common Law
4.: The Forms of Action
5.: The Jury and Pleading
6.: The Court of Chancery and Equity
7.: The Concilliar Courts
8.: The Concilliar Courts
9.: Judicial Review of Decisions
10.: The Legal Profession
11.: Legal Literature
12.: Law Making
PART TWO
13.: Real Property: Feudal Tenure
14.: Real Property: Feudalism and Uses
15.: Real Property: Inheritance and Estates
16.: Real Property: Family Settlements
17.: Other Interests in Land
18.: Contract: Covenant and Debt
19.: Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit
20.: Contract: Some Later Developments
21.: Quasi-Contract
22.: Property in Chattels Personal
23.: Negligence
24.: Nuisance
25.: Defamation
26.: Economic Torts
27.: Persons: Status and Liberty
28.: Persons: Marriage and its Consequences
29.: Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure
30.: Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal Law
Part One
1. Law and Custom in Early Britain
2. Origins of the Common Law
3. The Superior Courts of Common Law
4. The Forms of Action
5. The Jury and Pleading
6. The Court of Chancery and Equity
7. The Concilliar Courts
8. The Concilliar Courts
9. Judicial Review of Decisions
10. The Legal Profession
11. Legal Literature
12. Law Making
Part Two
13. Real Property: Feudal Tenure
14. Real Property: Feudalism and Uses
15. Real Property: Inheritance and Estates
16. Real Property: Family Settlements
17. Other Interests in Land
18. Contract: Covenant and Debt
19. Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit
20. Contract: Some Later Developments
21. Quasi-Contract
22. Property in Chattels Personal
23. Negligence
24. Nuisance
25. Defamation
26. Economic Torts
27. Persons: Status and Liberty
28. Persons: Marriage and its Consequences
29. Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure
30. Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal Law