Legal Education, Law, England, Common law, United Kingdom Common Law, John H. Baker, J. H. Baker 

"Legal history is not merely a history of particular events but also a history of the traditions - both intellectual and institutional - without which the law could not have a continuous, organic existence, and within which all legal change had to be accommodated..." - Book cover 

Contents:

pt. I. Lawyers -- 1. The Third University of England -- 2. The Division of the Temple: Inner, Middle and Outer -- 3. The Inns of Court and Legal Doctrine -- 4. The Judges as Visitors to the Inns of Court -- 5. The Degree of Barrister -- 6. Audience in the Courts -- 7. The Rank of Queen's Counsel -- pt. II. Law Books -- 8. Case-Law in England and Continental Europe -- 9. Dr. Thomas Fastolf and the History of Law Reporting -- 10. Case-Law in Medieval England -- 11. Some Early Newgate Reports, 1315-26 -- 12. John Bryt's Reports and the Year Books of Henry IV -- 13. Editing the Sources of English Legal History -- pt. III. Legal Institutions and the Law -- 14. The Three Languages of English Law -- 15. Westminster Hall -- 16. Personal Actions in the High Court of Battle Abbey, 1450-1602 -- 17. The Use of Assumpsit for Restitutionary Money Claims, 1500-1800 -- 18. Personal Liberty under the Common Law, 1200-1600 -- 19. Funeral Monuments and the Heir. 

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.