Author : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Common law
ISBN : 1584771372
Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
Author : John H. Langbein
Publisher : Aspen Publishers
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2009-08-14
Category : Law
ISBN :
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.
Author : Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1782546383
It adopts an approach which explains the historical development of the common law institutions and procedures whilst also setting them in perspective through a comparative outlook. Aspects of the common law are contrasted on occasions with structural o
Author : Arthur Reed Hogue
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780865970540
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.
Author : Harry Potter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 178327011X
A new approach to the telling of legal history, devoid of jargon and replete with good stories, which will be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about the common law - the spinal cord of the English body politic.
Author : Bart Wauters
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1786430762
Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Author : Susan Reynolds
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 0807833533
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the in
Author : John Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1351669974
The Formation of English Common Law provides a comprehensive overview of the development of early English law, one of the classic subjects of medieval history. This much expanded second edition spans the centuries from King Alfred to Magna Carta, abandoning the traditional but restrictive break at the Norman Conquest. Within a strong interpretative framework, it also integrates legal developments with wider changes in the thought, society, and politics of the time. Rather than simply tracing elements of the common law back to their Anglo-Saxon, Norman or other origins, John Hudson examines and analyses the emergence of the common law from the interaction of various elements that developed over time, such as the powerful royal government inherited from Anglo-Saxon England and land holding customs arising from the Norman Conquest. Containing a new chapter charting the Anglo-Saxon period, as well as a fully revised Further Reading section, this new edition is an authoritative yet highly accessible introduction to the formation of the English common law and is ideal for students of history and law.
Author : William Edward Nelson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0820315877
Americanization of the Common Law remains one of the standard works on the transformation of law in America from the late colonial period to the end of the early republic. In a straightforward manner, William E. Nelson analyzes the profound ideological movement that grew out of the American Revolution and caused substantial structural change in the legal and social order of Massachusetts and, by extension, in the nation at large. The Revolution, Nelson argues, transformed a hierarchical and communitarian legal and social order into an egalitarian and individualistic one. For this edition, Nelson has written a new preface in which he discusses the book's initial reception and the relevant historiographical issues that have arisen since it was first published in 1975.
Author : Melvin Aron Eisenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1991-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674604810
Common law rules predominate in some areas of law, such as torts and contracts, and are extremely important in other areas, such as corporations. Nevertheless, it has been unclear what principles courts use—or should use—in establishing common law rules. In this lucid book, Melvin Eisenberg develops the principles that govern this process.
