Baker and Milsom sources of English legal history : private law to 1750 / [compiled] by Sir John Baker.
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Title
Baker and Milsom sources of English legal history : private law to 1750 / [compiled] by Sir John Baker.
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Call Number
KD530 .B35 2010
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9780199546800 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0199546800 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0199546800 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Language Note
Translated from Middle English.
Description
xlix, 764 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)515462268
Summary
Previous edition published as: Sources of English legal history. London : Butterworth, 1986.
Note
Previous edition published as: Sources of English legal history. London: Butterworths, 1986.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Portion of Title
Sources of English legal history
Gift
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Murray Fund
Table of Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
v
Preface to the First Edition
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
Table of Statutes and other Legislation
xv
Alphabetical Table of Named Cases
xvii
Table of Cases cited by Year
xxxi
Table of Extracts from Lectures, Treatises and other Texts
xxxix
List of Abbreviations
xli
1.
Tenure: services and incidents
1
1.
Services
1
2.
Incidents
2
3.
Legislation protecting lords' interests
7
2.
Actions concerning land
10
1.
Writs of right
10
2.
Writs of entry
19
3.
Assize of mort d'ancestor
22
4.
Assize of novel disseisin
29
3.
Family interests and settlements at common law
35
1.
Dower
35
2.
Curtesy
36
3.
Transfer to heir inter vivos
38
4.
Gift to younger son
40
5.
Maritagium and fee tail
42
6.
Barring the entail
67
7.
Remainders
74
4.
Uses, wills and trusts
103
5.
Executory interests under the Statute of Uses
156
6.
The term of years
195
1.
Specific recovery of the term: quare ejecit and ejectment
195
2.
Protection against the lessor's lord
203
3.
Estates in terms of years
205
7.
Copyhold
217
8.
Debt
231
1.
Suit and wager of law
231
2.
Debt in cases where there is no deed
246
3.
Debt on a bond or specialty
276
9.
Detinue
290
10.
Covenant
307
11.
Account
326
12.
Trespass
338
1.
Force and arms and the king's peace
338
2.
Justifications and other pleas in bar
351
3.
Questions of fault
362
13.
Trespass on the case
381
14.
Assumpsit for misfeasance
399
15.
Assumpsit for nonfeasance
421
16.
Assumpsit in lieu of debt
448
17.
Assumpsit against executors for money
484
18.
Various developments of the money counts
494
1.
Actions on bills of exchange
494
2.
Quantum meruit
498
3.
The general indebitatus count
499
4.
Goods sold
499
5.
Money had and received
500
6.
Money laid out and work done
511
7.
Customary dues
515
8.
Use and occupation of land
518
19.
Consideration and privity
519
1.
Consideration
519
2.
Privity
537
20.
Actions on the case for deceit
555
21.
Actions on the case for conversion
576
1.
Conversion by a bailee
576
2.
Trover and conversion
583
22.
Actions on the case for negligence
603
1.
Innkeepers
603
2.
Control of fire
609
3.
Carriers
613
4.
Bailment or lease but no express undertaking
616
5.
No custom of the realm, bailment or undertaking
621
23.
Actions on the case for nuisance
640
1.
Establishment of actions on the case to supplement or supplant the assize
640
2.
The balancing of interests
652
3.
The standard of liability
664
24.
Actions on the case for various kinds of economic loss
669
25.
Actions on the case for defamation
686
1.
Spiritual matters
686
2.
Establishment of the action on the case
691
3.
Construction in mitiori sensu
698
4.
Construction in an ordinary or bad sense
704
5.
Libel
707
Index of names
717
Index of subjects
740