John Baker (Professor of the Laws Professor of the Laws of England

Introduction to English Legal History

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensively revised and updated fifth edition of the definitive history of the development of the common law in England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1224g
• ISBN-13: 9780198812616
• ISBN-10: 0198812612
• Artikelnr.: 55395028

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part one
1: Law and Custom before 1066
2: The Common Law of England
3: The Superior Courts of Common Law
4: The Forms of Action
5: The Jury and Pleading
6: The Court of Chancery and Equity
7: The Conciliar Courts
8: The Ecclesiastical Courts
9: Judicial Review of Decisions
10: The Legal Profession
11: Legal Literature
12: Law Making
Part two
13: Real Property: Feudal Tenure
14: Real Property: Uses and Fiscal Feudalism
15: Real Property: Inheritance and Estates
16: Real Property: Family Settlements
17: Other Interests in Land
18: Contract: Covenant and Debt
19: Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit
20: Contract: Some Later Developments
21: Quasi-Contract
22: Property in Chattels Personal
23: Negligence
24: Nuisance
25: Defamation
26: Economic Torts
27: Persons: Status and Liberty
28: Persons: Marriage and its Consequences
29: Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure
30: Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal Law
Appendix I
Appendix II