An introduction to English legal history / by J.H. Baker.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Baker, John H. (John Hamilton)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Butterworths, 1979.
Edition:2d ed.
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245 1 3 |a An introduction to English legal history /  |c by J.H. Baker. 
250 |a 2d ed. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a Part One -- 1. Law and custom in early Britain -- 'Communal' justice -- 2. Origins of the Common Law -- Central royal justice -- Effects on local justice -- The isolation of English law -- 3. The Superior Courts of Common Law -- Uniformity and abolition -- 4. The forms of action -- Originating an action -- Types of original writ -- End of the forms of action -- 5. The jury and pleading -- From 'proof' to 'trial' -- Medieval pleading and legal development -- The system transformed -- Decline of the Common Law System -- 6. The Court of Chancery and Equity -- The Chancery -- Law and equity -- Practical defects of the Chancery -- Reform and abolition -- 7. The Conciliar Courts -- The Courts of the Admiral and Marshal -- 8. The Ecclesiastical Courts -- Effect of the Reformation -- 9. Judicial review of decisions -- Proceedings in error -- Development of the appeal -- The prerogative writs -- Administrative law -- 10. The legal profession -- The new profession -- The judiciary -- The civilian advocates -- Legal education -- 11. Legal literature -- Reports of cases -- Abridgments -- Formularies -- Treatises -- 12. Law making -- Legislation -- Law reform movements -- Part Two -- 13. Real property: feudal tenure -- Tenure -- Feudalism and land ownership -- The incidents of tenure -- Feudalism and uses -- 14. Real property: estates and settlements -- Alienation -- Succession: the Canons of Descent -- Succession: dynasty and family -- Reversions and remainders -- Settlements -- 15. Interests in land less than freehold -- The term of years -- Tenancy at will -- Copyhold -- Licences -- 16. Contract -- The action of covenant -- The action of debt -- Gaps in the Medieval law -- Trespass and covenant -- Assumpsit and debt -- A unified law of contract -- Elaboration of contract law -- Contractural term s -- 17. Quasi-contract -- The action of account -- Actions on the case -- Indebitatus assumpsit -- A general principle -- 18. Property in chattels personal -- Modes of transfer -- Termination of property in chattels -- Interests in chattels -- Detinue -- Trespass to chattels -- Trover and conversion -- 19. Negligence -- The Tort of Negligence -- The nature of tortious negligence -- 20. Nuisance -- The nature of nuisance -- Isolated occurences -- Common or public nuisances -- 21. Defamation -- Attempts to abate the flood of actions -- The scope of defamation -- Libel -- 22. Economic torts -- Monopolies -- Loss of services -- Unfair or deceptive competition -- Intimidation -- 23. Marriage and divorce -- Unity of person -- Bastardy -- Divorce -- 24. Criminal justice -- Trial on indictment -- Trial of misdemeanours -- The avoidance and adjustment of punishment -- Substantive law of crimes -- Appendix A -- Specimen writs -- judicial writs -- Original writs -- Prerogative writs -- Appendix B -- Specimen pleadings -- Frenche v Baker -- Index. 
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