An introduction to English legal history / by Sir John Baker.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

5th edition

89162

Law -- England -- History.

Law -- Wales -- History.

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

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 and interests

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.

Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present and, combined with Baker and Milsom's Sources of Legal History, offers invaluable insights into the development of the common law of persons, obligations, and property, and also of criminal and public law. It is an essential reference point for all lawyers, historians and students seeking to understand the evolution of English law over a millennium. The book provides an introduction to the main characteristics, institutions, and doctrines of English law over the longer term - particularly the evolution of the common law before the extensive statutory changes and regulatory regimes of the last two centuries. It explores how legal change was brought about in the common law and how judges and lawyers managed to square evolution with respect for inherited wisdom - Publisher's website.

Includes contents and index.

9780198812616

lxvi, 637 p. ; 25 cm