Great Britain, Administrative Law, Legal History, Europe, Law, Professional J. H. Baker, Collected essays, Essays, John H. Baker 

"Over the last forty years, Sir John Baker has written on most aspects of English legal history, and this collection of his writings includes many papers that have been widely cited. Providing points of reference and foundations for further research, the papers cover the legal profession, the inns of court and chancery, legal education, legal institutions, legal literature, legal antiquities, public law and individual liberty, criminal justice, private law (including contract, tort and restitution) and legal history in general. An introduction traces the development of some of the research represented by the papers, and cross-references and new endnotes have been added. A full bibliography of the author's works is also included"-- Provided by Publisher. 

Contents:
Volume I. The English legal profession 1450-1550 -- Counsellors and barristers -- Solicitors and the law of maintenance 1590-1640 -- The degree of barrister -- Audience in the courts -- The rank of queen's counsel -- The Third University of England -- The inns of court in 1388 -- The division of the Temple : inner, middle and outer -- The Inn of the Outer Temple -- The old constitution of Gray's Inn -- The ancient and honourable society of Gray's Inn -- The inns of court and chancery as voluntary associations -- The judges as visitors to the inns of court -- Oral instruction in land law and conveyancing 1250-1500 -- Legal education in London 1250-1850 -- The Pekynnes -- Learning exercises in the medieval inns of court and chancery -- The old moot-book of Lincoln's Inn -- Readings in Gray's Inn, their decline and disappearance -- The inns of court and legal doctrine -- Roman law at the Third University of England -- The Third University 1450-1550 : law school or finishing school? -- The changing concept of a court -- From lovedays to commercial arbitration -- Personal actions in the high court of Battle Abbey 1450-1602 -- Judicial conservatism in the common pleas 1500-1560 -- The common lawyers and the chancery : 1616

Volume II. The three languages of the common law -- Case-law in medieval England -- Dr. Thomas Fastolf and the history of law reporting -- John Bryt's reports and the year books of Henry IV -- Case-law in England and continental Europe -- The books of the common law 1400-1557 -- English law books and legal publishing 1557-1695 -- Books of entries -- Manuscripts in the Inner Temple -- Common lawyers' libraries 1450-1650 -- John Rastell and the terms of the law -- Coke's notebooks and the sources of his reports -- John Selden and the English legal history -- The Newe Littleton -- Sir Thomas Robinson's notebooks -- Westminster Hall -- English judges' robes 1350-2008 -- The earliest serjeants' rings -- The judicial collar of SS -- The mystery of the bar gown -- Personal liberty under the common law 1200-1600 -- An English view of the Anglo-Hibernian constitution in 1670 -- Human rights and the rule of law in Renaissance England -- Equity and public law in England -- Some early Newgate reports 1315-1328 -- The refinement of English criminal jurisprudence 1500-1848 -- Criminal courts and procedure 1550-1800 -- Torture and the law of proof -- The Tudor law of treason -- Criminal justice at Newgate 1616-1627 -- Le brickbat que narrowly mist

Volume III. The history of the common law of contract -- Covenants and the law of proof 1290-1321 -- New light on Slade's case -- Origins of the 'doctrine' of consideration 1535-1585 -- Privity of contract in the common law before 1680 -- The rise and fall of freedom of contract -- The law merchant and the common law before 1700 -- 'Law merchant' as a source of English law -- The use of assumpsit for restitutionary money claims 1600-1800 -- Bezoar-stones, gall-stones and gem-stones : the action on the case for deceit -- The common law of negligence 1500-1700 -- Dower of personalty 1250-1450 -- Sir John Melton's case 1535 -- Funeral monuments and the heir -- Charity and perpetuity : the commemoration of benefactors -- Kiralfy's The action of the case -- The dark age of English legal history 1500-1700 -- English law and the Renaissance -- The common law in 1608 -- Legal process as reported in correspondence -- Words and fictions : male and married spinsters -- 'Authentic testimony'? fact and law in legal records -- Editing the sources of English legal history -- Why the history of English law has not been finished -- Why should undergraduates study legal history? 

Catalogued as a box set.