An introduction to English legal history
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0406555001
ISBN 13
9780406555007
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1971
Publisher
Butterworths, Australia
Pages
xxi, 330 pages
Subject
United Kingdom Common Law
Abstract
""A law student in the present day," said professor Amos in an unpublished lecture in 1831, "should be like the ancient God Janus He should have two faces, looking forwards and backwards on his profession; or he may have perchance find the choicest stores of his industry suddenly converted into useless and cumbersome rubbish""...- Preface
Description
Contents:
1. Law and custom in early Britain
2. Local and private justice
3. Early royal justice
4. The superior courts of common law
5. The court of chancery and equity
6. Conciliar courts and the civil law
7. Review of judgement and appellate
8. The legal profession
9. The form of action
10. The science of pleading
11. The source of English law
12. Legal literature
13. The law of real property: 1
14. The law of real property: 2
15. The law of real property: 3
16. The law of contract
17. Property in chattels personal
18. Negligence in tort
19. Nuisance
20. Defamation
21. Marriage and divorce
22. Criminal justice
23. The reform of the law
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index
1. Law and custom in early Britain
2. Local and private justice
3. Early royal justice
4. The superior courts of common law
5. The court of chancery and equity
6. Conciliar courts and the civil law
7. Review of judgement and appellate
8. The legal profession
9. The form of action
10. The science of pleading
11. The source of English law
12. Legal literature
13. The law of real property: 1
14. The law of real property: 2
15. The law of real property: 3
16. The law of contract
17. Property in chattels personal
18. Negligence in tort
19. Nuisance
20. Defamation
21. Marriage and divorce
22. Criminal justice
23. The reform of the law
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index
Biblio Notes
Great Britain, England, John H. Baker, J. H. Baker, Common Law
Number of Copies
1
