History and sources of the common law : tort and contract
Type
Book
Authors
LCCN
KD 671 .F54
Category
Special Collections
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Publication Year
1949
Publisher
Stevens and Sons, Limited, United Kingdom
Pages
xvii, 446 pages
Subject
United Kingdom Common Law
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Abstract
"This book is an attempt to follow two branches of the common law from their sources. I have not explored the manuscripts, but have confined myself to the printed materials: to the literature of the law from Glanvill to Blackstone and the the reports, with especial emphasis upon the year books as they have been published in the Rolls series, in the volumes of the Selden Society and of the Ames Foundation, and in the black letter editions..." - Preface
Description
Contents:
Part one: tort -- Nuisance -- Detinue -- Trespass -- The development of actions on the case -- Action on the case for nuisance -- Trover and conversion -- Defamation -- Negligence -- Trespass and case -- Part two: contract -- Debt -- Covenant -- Account -- Developments outside the common law before the sixteenth century -- The evolution of assumpsit -- Consideration (with a note on accord and satisfaction).
Part one: tort -- Nuisance -- Detinue -- Trespass -- The development of actions on the case -- Action on the case for nuisance -- Trover and conversion -- Defamation -- Negligence -- Trespass and case -- Part two: contract -- Debt -- Covenant -- Account -- Developments outside the common law before the sixteenth century -- The evolution of assumpsit -- Consideration (with a note on accord and satisfaction).
Biblio Notes
Includes index.
Donated by Graham Price.
Donated by Graham Price.
Number of Copies
1
