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

London : Butterworths, 2002.

4th edition

25164

Law -- Great Britian -- History.

Part 1:

1. Law and custom in early Britain

2. Origins of the common law

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. Legal profession

11. Legal literature

12. Law making

Part 2:

13. Real property: feudal tenure

14. Real property: feudalism and uses

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.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

0406930538

xlix, 600 pages ; 25 cm