Lectures on legal history / by W. J. V. Windeyer.

Sydney : Law Book, 1938.

1st edition

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Law -- History -- Great Britain.

I. Before the Norman conquest

II. Civil law and canon law in Europe in the twelfth century

III. English law under Norman Kings (1066-1154)

IV. Henry II - the King's court and the beginnings of the common law

V. The thirteenth century

VI. Magna Carta

VII. Early writers - Glanvil, the dialogue, Bracton

VIII. The earliest personal actions

IX. Edward I and the statute law

X. Law books of the time of Edward I

XI. Trespass, assumpsit, trover and case

XII. The common law courts - their history and procedure before the judicature acts

XIII. Justices of the peace and coroners

XIV. The lawyers

XV. The year books

XVI. The later middle ages

XVII. Fortescue, Littleton, St. Germain

XVIII. The sixteenth century

XIX. The prerogative courts

XX. Early mercantile and maritime law and the history of the court of admiralty

XXI. The action of ejectment

XXII. After the year books - law reports and abridgements

XXIII. The seventeenth century

XXIV. The reign of James I and the beginning of the struggle between the prerogative and the law

XXV. Sir Edward Coke

XXVI. Charles I and the triumph of the parliament

XXVII. The commonwealth and the restoration

XXVIII. James II and the glorious revolution

XXIX. The eighteenth century

XXX. Holt and Mansfield

XXXI. Blackstone

XXXII. Equity and the history of the court of chancery

XXXIII. The nineteenth century

XXXIV. English law in the nineteenth century

XXXV. The introduction of English law into Australia

Copy held inscribed 'H.T. Gibbs' and 'Muriel Gibbs'.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Supreme Court Library Queensland. Legal heritage collection. Sir Harry Gibbs collection.

xv, 280 pages ; 26 cm