History Of The Common Law
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A Concise History of the Common Law
Author | : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett |
Publsiher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Common law |
ISBN | : 9781584771371 |
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Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
History of the Common Law
Author | : John H. Langbein,Renee Lettow Lerner,Bruce P. Smith |
Publsiher | : Aspen Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1310 |
Release | : 2009-08-14 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780735596047 |
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This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs.
Origins of the Common Law
Author | : Arthur Reed Hogue |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0865970548 |
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Written for the beginning student as well as the experienced scholar, this introductory analysis of the origin and early development or the English common law provides and excellent grounding for the early study of legal history. Between 1154, when Henry II became king, and 1307, when Edward I died, the common law underwent spectacular growth. The author begins with a discussion of the relationship between the early rules of common law and the social order they serve during this period and concludes with an extended commentary on the durability and continued growth of the common law in modern times.
A Natural History of the Common Law
Author | : S. F. C. Milsom |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2003-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231503495 |
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How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in legal history and criticism, one of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians S. F. C. Milsom focuses on the development of English common law—the intellectually coherent system of substantive rules that courts bring to bear on the particular facts of individual cases—from which American law was to grow. Milsom discusses the differences between the development of land law and that of other kinds of law and, in the latter case, how procedural changes allowed substantive rules first to be stated and then to be circumvented. He examines the invisibility of early legal change and how adjustment to conditions was hidden behind such things as the changing meaning of words. Milsom points out that legal history may be more prone than other kinds of history to serious anachronism. Nobody ever states his assumptions, and a legal writer, addressing his contemporaries, never provided a glossary to warn future historians against attributing their own meanings to his words and therefore their own assumptions to his world. Formal continuity has enabled nineteenth-century assumptions to be carried back, in some respects as far back as the twelfth century. This book brings together Milsom's efforts to understand the uncomfortable changes that lie beneath that comforting formal surface. Those changes were too large to have been intended by anyone at the time and too slow to be perceived by historians working within the short periods now imposed by historical convention. The law was made not by great men making great decisions but by man-sized men unconcerned with the future and thinking only about their own immediate everyday difficulties. King Henry II, for example, did not intend the changes attributed to him in either land law or criminal law; the draftsman of De Donis did not mean to create the entail; nobody ever dreamed up a fiction with intent to change the law.
A History of Law in Canada Vol 1
Author | : Philip Girard,Jim Phillips,R. Blake Brown |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781487504632 |
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A History of Law in Canada is the first of two volumes. Volume one begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, while volume two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada - the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.
The History of the Common Law of England
Author | : Matthew Hale |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1820 |
Genre | : Civil law |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB10563568 |
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Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law
Author | : Paul Brand,Joshua Getzler |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781139505574 |
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In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of law-making in courts that is the focus of inquiry. Contributors describe and analyse aspects of judicial activity, in the widest possible legal and social contexts, across two millennia. The essays cover English common law, continental customary law and ius commune, and aspects of the common law system in the British Empire. The volume is innovative in its approach to legal history. None of the essays offer straight doctrinal exegesis; none take refuge in old-fashioned judicial biography. The volume is a selection of the best papers from the 18th British Legal History Conference.
A History of the Common Law of Contract
Author | : A. W. B. Simpson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 019825573X |
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The common law is one of two major and successful systems of law developed in Western Europe, and in one form or another is now in force not only in the country of its origin but also in the United States and large parts of the British Commonwealth and former parts of the Empire.