Historical foundations of the common law

Type

Book

Authors

Milsom, S. F. C.

ISBN 10

0409850055

ISBN 13

9780409850055

Tags

Jurisprudence, Common law, Great Britain, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Common Law

Abstract

"This book is directed at the central difficulty in legal history; one is not reconstructing earlier answers to modern questions, but earlier questions; as they were different in kind. Today we see law as a system of substantive rules which can be explained in text-books, altered by legislation, and embodied in a restatement or a code. It is somehow separate from society and needs separate adjustment; and there is a simple relationship between legal and other change. If this has always been so, legal and social and economic history would all be easy. They are not..." - Back cover

Description

Contents:
Preface to second edition
Introduction: A general view
Institutional background
The centralization of justice
The institutions of the common law in its first formative period
The institutions of the common law in its second formative period
The rise of equity
Property in land
Tenures
Early actions
Later actions
Settlement of land at law
Uses and trusts of land
Obligations
Old personal actions
The rise of trespass and case
Growth of the modern law at contract
Rise of modern law of torts
Crime
Criminal administration and law
Table of cases

Biblio Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
First edition also within the collection.

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