An introduction to English legal history / by J.H. Baker.
2002
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Title
An introduction to English legal history / by J.H. Baker.
Published
London : Butterworths ; Dayton, Ohio : LexisNexis, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
KD532 .B34 2002
Edition
Fourth edition.
ISBN
0406930538
Description
xlix, 600 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50229543
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
Portion of Title
English legal history
Table of Contents
Preface
Table of Statutes
Table of Cases
Kings and Queens of England since 1066
Table of Abbreviations
1
Law and Custom in Early Britain
1
'Communal' Justice
3
From Communal to Personal Authority
8
2
Origins of the Common Law
12
Regional an Itinerant Royal Justice
14
Central Royal Justice
17
Effects on Local Justice
22
The Boundaries of English Law
27
3
The Superior Courts of Common Law
37
The Resurgence of the King's Bench
41
The Exchequer of Pleas
47
Uniformity and Abolition
49
4
The Forms of Action
53
Originating an Action
53
Types of Original Writ
57
Judicial Writs
64
End of the Forms of Action
67
5
The Jury and Pleading
71
From 'Proof' to 'Trial'
72
Medieval Pleading and Legal Development
76
The System Transformed
81
Decline of the Common-Law System
86
End of the Common-Law System
90
6
The Court of Chancery and Equity
97
The Chancery
99
Law and Equity
105
Practical Defects of the later Chancery
111
Reform and Abolition
113
7
The Conciliar Courts
117
The Court of Star Chamber
117
The Court of Requests
119
Regional Conciliar and Equity Courts
121
The Courts of the Admiral and Marshal
122
8
The Ecclesiastical Courts
126
Effect of the Reformation
130
9
Judicial Review of Decisions
135
Proceedings in Error
136
Development of the Appeal
138
The Prerogative Writs
143
Administrative Law
151
10
The Legal Profession
155
The Medieval Profession
156
The New Profession
162
The Judiciary
165
Civilian Advocates
169
Legal Education in the Universities
170
11
Legal Literature
175
Glanvill and Bracton
175
Formularies
177
Reports of Cases
178
Treatises
186
12
Law Making
195
The Common Law
196
Equity and Legal Change
202
Legislation
204
Law Reform Movements
212
13
Real Property: Feudal Tenure
223
Tenure
223
Feudalism and Land Ownership
229
The Lord's Rights at Common Law
237
Table B
Types of property
246
Table C
Types of tenure
247
14
Real Property: Feudalism and Uses
248
Effect on Feudal Law
252
15
Real Property: Inheritance and Estates
259
Alienation
260
The Law of Inheritance
265
Provision for Spouses and New Families
269
Reversions and Remainders
274
Table D
Estates in land
279
Table E
Modes of conveying real property
279
16
Real Property: Family Settlements
280
Remainders and Executory Interests
284
Powers
289
Trusts
290
The Strict Settlement
293
17
Other Interests in Land
298
The Term of Years
298
Tenancy at Will
306
Villein Tenure and Copyhold
307
The Trust as an Interest in Land
309
Mortgages
311
18
Contract: Covenant and Debt
317
The Action of Covenant
318
The Action of Debt
321
Gaps in the Medieval Law
326
19
Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit
329
Breach of Covenant as Trespass
329
Assumpsit for Nonfeasance
333
Assumpsit in Lieu of Debt
341
20
Contract: Some Later Developments
347
Elaboration of Contract Law
350
Privity
353
Contractual Terms
355
21
Quasi-Contract
362
The Action of Account
363
Actions on the Case
365
Indebitatus Assumpsit
368
A General Principle
375
22
Property in Chattels Personal
379
Modes of Transfer
383
Termination of Private Property in Chattels
387
Interests in Chattels
389
Early Restitutionary Proceedings
390
Detinue
391
Trespass and Case for Chattels
394
Trover and Conversion
397
23
Negligence
401
Trespass Vi et Armis and Negligence
402
Actions on the Case for Negligence
406
The Tort of Negligence
409
24
Nuisance
422
Remedies of Nuisance
422
Isolated Occurrences
432
Common or Public Nuisances
433
25
Defamation
436
Actions on the Case for Words
438
Attempts to Abate the Flood of Actions
440
The Scope of Defamation
443
Libel
445
26
Economic Torts
448
Monopolies
449
Domestic Relationships
454
Unfair or Deceptive Competition
458
Intimidation and Conspiracy
459
27
Persons: Status and Liberty
466
Villein Status
468
Freedom from Arbitrary Imprisonment
472
Colonial Slavery and the English Courts
475
28
Persons: Marriage and its Consequences
479
The Law of Marriage
479
Unity of Person
483
Bastardy
489
Divorce
490
29
Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure
500
The Initiation of Criminal Proceedings
502
The Trial
507
The Avoidance or Mitigation of Punishment
512
30
Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal Law
521
Criminal Responsibility
523
Degrees of Participation
525
Some Particular Offences
526
App. I
Specimen Writs
539
App. II
Specimen Entries
554
Index
563