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Baker and Milsom's Sources of English Legal History Private Law to 1750, 2nd Edition

Author: John Baker
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199546800
Published In: May 2010
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The definitive source book on the development of the common law of persons, obligations, and property - an essential reference point for all legal historians or comparative lawyers engaged in this history of the common law
Translates the sources into modern, accessible English, making the primary materials accessible to students of legal history
The sources themselves offer a rich resource for historians of English society, government, and economics, revealing the operation of the courts in personal and economic disputes

New to this edition

Includes new sources discovered since the first edition published in 1986
Comprehensively revised and updated in light of recent scholarship, including corrections to some sources in light of law reports that were previously unavailable

Baker and Milsom's Sources of English Legal History is the definitive source book on the development of English private law. This new edition has been comprehensively revised and udpated to incorporate new sources discovered since the original publication in 1986, and to reflect developments in recent scholarship.

All the sources included are translated into modern English, offering an accessible inroad to the leading primary materials for students of the history of the common law.

The sources themselves - revealing the operation of courts across a wide range of personal and economic disputes - offer a rich resource for historians researching the development of the English government, society, and economy. Their significance in shaping the common law spans beyond England, and ensures the collection is an essential reference point for all those interested in the history of the common law in any jurisdiction.

Readership: Students and scholars of legal history and the English legal system. Historians and students working on the development of the common law outside England. English historians specializing in the history of government, or social and economic historians.

Contents:: Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1: Tenure: services and incidents; 2: Actions concerning land; 3: Family interests and settlements at common law; 4: Uses, wills, and trusts; 5: Executory interests under the Statute of Uses; 6: The term of years; 7: Copyhold; 8: Debt; 9: Detinue; 10: Covenant; 11: Account; 12: Trespass; 13: Trespass on the case; 14: Assumpsit for misfeasance; 15: Assumpsit for nonfeasance; 16: Assumpsit in lieu of debt; 17: Assumpsit against executors for money; 18: Various developments of the money counts; 19: Consideration and privity; 20: Actions on the case for deceit; 21: Actions on the case for conversion; 22: Actions on the case for negligence; 23: Actions on the case for nuisance; 24: Actions on the case for various kinds of economic loss; 25: Actions on the case for defamation; Index