England, Law, History, Great Britain, English Common law, United Kingdom Common Law 

"This book makes no claim to embody the results of any original research. Its purpose is to supply a want, which we have felt as teachers, of a book which should contain within a reasonable compass at once a short history of our legal institutions and an account of the existing organization of our courts of law." - Preface 

Contents:
I. The Anglo-Saxon Period -- II. The Norman Period, 1066-1154 -- III. The Early Angevins, 1154-1215 -- IV. The Splitting up of the Curia Regis -- V. The Criminal Law in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries -- VI. The Civil Law in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries -- VII. the Council and the Court of Star Chamber -- VIII. The Court of Chancery from its Origin to the Restoration -- IX. The Court of Chancery from the Restoration to the Nineteenth Century -- X. The Common Law - Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (I) -- XI. The Common Law - Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries (II) -- XII. The Criminal Courts - Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries -- XIII. Courts of Appeal: The Exchequer Chamber and the House of Lords -- XIV. Courts of Special Jurisdiction -- XV. The Superior Courts of Law and Equity, 1825-1875 -- XVI. The Modern County Courts -- XVII. The Supreme Court of Judicature -- XVIII The Modern Criminal Courts -- XIX. The Privy Council -- XX. Case Law and Statute Law -- XXI. The Legal Profession -- XXII. The Legal System and the State. 

Donated by Graham Price.