The law's two bodies : some evidential problems in English legal history / J.H. Baker.
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Publication details:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Record id:
22036
Author:
Series:
Clarendon law lectures.
Subject:
Law -- History.
Common law -- History.
Case law -- History.
Fictions of law -- History.
Statute law.
Fictions (Law) -- Great Britain -- History.
Historiography.
Contents:
1. Case-law and statute-law
Lecture 2. Legal fictions
Lecture 3. Common usage and common learning
A. Common practice and communis error
B. Fictions in bills, writs and pleadings
C. Fictions in trial: benefit of clergy for laymen
D. Linguistic fictions and legal personality
E. Improper fictions
F. Common learning
G. Opinions of counsel.
Note:
Includes index.
ISBN:
0199245185
Phys. description:
xix, 197 p. ; 23 cm