Introduction to English Legal History / Edition 5

by John Baker

Overview

Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present and, combined with Baker and Milsom's Sources of Legal History, offers invaluable insights into the development of the common law of persons, obligations, and property. It is an essential reference point for all lawyers, historians and students seeking to understand the evolution of English law over a millennium.

The book provides an introduction to the main characteristics, institutions, and doctrines of English law over the longer term - particularly the evolution of the common law before the extensive statutory changes and regulatory regimes of the last two centuries. It explores how legal change was brought about in the common law and how judges and lawyers managed to square evolution with respect for inherited wisdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198812616
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/21/2019
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	704
Sales rank:	925,204
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 6.70(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

John Baker, Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge

Sir John Baker is the Downing Professor of the Laws of England and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple and was knighted for his services to legal history in 2003.

Table of Contents

Part one1. Law and Custom before 10662. The Common Law of England3. The Superior Courts of Common Law4. The Forms of Action5. The Jury and Pleading6. The Court of Chancery and Equity7. The Conciliar Courts8. The Ecclesiastical Courts9. Judicial Review of Decisions10. The Legal Profession11. Legal Literature12. Law MakingPart two13. Real Property: Feudal Tenure14. Real Property: Uses and Fiscal Feudalism15. Real Property: Inheritance and Estates16. Real Property: Family Settlements17. Other Interests in Land18. Contract: Covenant and Debt19. Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit20. Contract: Some Later Developments21. Quasi-Contract22. Property in Chattels Personal23. Negligence24. Nuisance25. Defamation26. Economic Torts27. Persons: Status and Liberty28. Persons: Marriage and its Consequences29. Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure30. Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal LawAppendix IAppendix II