Administrative Law, Legal History, Law, English legal history, Medieval law, United Kingdom Common Law, John H. Baker, J. H. Baker 

'This introduction to legal history contains chapters on law and custom in early Britain, jury and pleading, real property, criminal procedure and more." - Voila 

Contents:

Kings and Queens of England since 1066 -- 1. Law and Custom in Early Britain -- 'Communal' Justice -- From Communal to Personal Authority -- 2. Origins of the Common Law -- Regional an Itinerant Royal Justice -- Central Royal Justice -- Effects on Local Justice -- Boundaries of English Law -- 3. Superior Courts of Common Law -- Resurgence of the King's Bench -- Exchequer of Pleas -- Uniformity and Abolition -- 4. Forms of Action -- Originating an Action -- Types of Original Writ -- Judicial Writs -- End of the Forms of Action -- 5. Jury and Pleading -- From 'Proof' to 'Trial' -- Medieval Pleading and Legal Development -- System Transformed -- Decline of the Common-Law System -- End of the Common-Law System -- 6. Court of Chancery and Equity -- Chancery -- Law and Equity -- Practical Defects of the later Chancery -- Reform and Abolition -- 7. Conciliar Courts -- ^ Court of Star Chamber -- Court of Requests -- Regional Conciliar and Equity Courts -- Courts of the Admiral and Marshal -- 8. Ecclesiastical Courts -- Effect of the Reformation -- 9. Judicial Review of Decisions -- Proceedings in Error -- Development of the Appeal -- Prerogative Writs -- Administrative Law -- 10. Legal Profession -- Medieval Profession -- New Profession -- Judiciary -- Civilian Advocates -- Legal Education in the Universities -- 11. Legal Literature -- Glanvill and Bracton -- Formularies -- Reports of Cases -- Treatises -- 12. Law Making -- Common Law -- Equity and Legal Change -- Legislation -- Law Reform Movements -- 13. Real Property: Feudal Tenure -- Tenure -- Feudalism and Land Ownership -- Lord's Rights at Common Law. Table B. Types of property -- Table C. Types of tenure -- 14. Real Property: Feudalism and Uses -- Effect on Feudal Law -- ^ 15. Real Property: Inheritance and Estates -- Alienation -- Law of Inheritance

Provision for Spouses and New Families -- Reversions and Remainders. Table D. Estates in land -- Table E. Modes of conveying real property -- 16. Real Property: Family Settlements -- Remainders and Executory Interests -- Powers -- Trusts -- Strict Settlement -- 17. Other Interests in Land -- Term of Years -- Tenancy at Will -- Villein Tenure and Copyhold -- Trust as an Interest in Land -- Mortgages -- 18. Contract: Covenant and Debt -- Action of Covenant -- Action of Debt -- Gaps in the Medieval Law -- 19. Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit -- Breach of Covenant as Trespass -- Assumpsit for Nonfeasance -- Assumpsit in Lieu of Debt -- 20. Contract: Some Later Developments -- Elaboration of Contract Law -- Privity -- Contractual Terms -- 21. Quasi-Contract -- Action of Account -- Actions on the Case -- Indebitatus Assumpsit -- General Principle -- 22. Property in Chattels Personal -- Modes of Transfer -- Termination of Private Property in Chattels -- Interests in Chattels -- Early Restitutionary Proceedings -- Detinue -- Trespass and Case for Chattels -- Trover and Conversion -- 23. Negligence -- Trespass Vi et Armis and Negligence -- Actions on the Case for Negligence -- Tort of Negligence -- 24. Nuisance -- Remedies of Nuisance -- Isolated Occurrences -- Common or Public Nuisances -- 25. Defamation -- Actions on the Case for Words -- Attempts to Abate the Flood of Actions -- Scope of Defamation -- Libel -- 26. Economic Torts -- Monopolies -- Domestic Relationships -- Unfair or Deceptive Competition -- Intimidation and Conspiracy -- 27. Persons: Status and Liberty -- Villein Status -- Freedom from Arbitrary Imprisonment -- Colonial Slavery and the English Courts -- 28. Persons: Marriage and its Consequences -- ^ Law of Marriage -- Unity of Person -- Bastardy -- Divorce -- 29. Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure
Initiation of Criminal Proceedings -- Trial -- Avoidance or Mitigation of Punishment -- 30. Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal Law -- Criminal Responsibility -- Degrees of Participation -- Some Particular Offences. App. I. Specimen Writs -- App. II. Specimen Entries. 

Includes bibliographical references (539) and index.
Donated by Graham Price.