London: Cavendish Publishing Limited. 1996. — 483 p. Today, when law courses are more popular than ever before, students can have real difficulty in getting at the materials they need. Libraries are often not large enough, or not sufficiently well stocked, to cater for all those who want to use them. Part-time students can be at a special disadvantage. In the end, the struggle...
Ed. by B. Thorpe. Vol. II. 1840. - 674 p. Originally published for the Record Commissioners in 1840, this two-volume work remains a standard source for scholars of Anglo-Saxon and early Norman legal history. Benjamin Thorpe (1781?–1870) was a respected and prolific scholar and translator of Old English, whose publications in the field earned him a civil list pension in 1835....
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 637 p. — ISBN: 978-0-191850-40-3. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 520 p. Fee tails were a basic building block for family landholding from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The classic entail was an interest in land that was inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to the lineal heirs of the original grantee. Biancalana's study describes the development of...
This Index of names of all the personages who occur in the texts of the Cartularium Saxonicum was originally undertaken for my the author's own use, and was confined to the names of the witnesses. In this form it was the work of the author's colleagues, Mr. I. H. Jeayes and Mr. F. B. Bickley. Subsequently the author was desired to incorporate the names of the persons which are...
Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2002. - 272 p. - ISBN: 1847313264, 9781847313263. While much fundamental research in the recent past has been devoted to the criminal jury in England to 1800, there has been little work on the nineteenth century, and on the civil jury. This important study fills these obvious gaps in the literature. It also provides a re-assessment of standard issues...
London: Stevens and Sons. 1896. — 152 p. The form of Appeal by motion, which was introduced by the Act of 1875, and adopted by its successor of 1888, has not been found so simple and workable as had been anticipated from a procedure the avowed object of which was to cheapen and facilitate Appeals from County Court.
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 206 p. Neil Duxbury examines how precedents constrain legal decision-makers and how legal decision-makers relax and avoid those constraints. There is no single principle or theory which explains the authority of precedent but rather a number of arguments which raise rebuttable presumptions in favour of precedent-following. This book examines...
Brill, 2009. — 505 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-17466-5. This book offers a fundamental reassessment of the origins of a central court in Scotland. It examines the early judicial role of Parliament, the development of 'the Session' in the fifteenth century as a judicial sitting of the King's Council, and its reconstitution as the College of Justice in 1532. Drawing on new archival...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-12227-7. By presenting original research into British legal history, this volume emphasises the historical shaping of the law by ideas of authority. The essays offer perspectives upon the way that ideas of authority underpinned the conceptualisation and interpretation of legal sources over time and became embedded in...
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1938. — 158 p. The work on the Customary Law of the Muslims in India are too few in number to require an apology for the publication of this book. In writing about the Moplas who , it may be said, are the only people in India who have retained to a large extent their pre-Islamic customs in preference to the laws of their religion.
London: George Bell and Sons. 1903. — 536 p. In putting before the public a work like the present Iam aware that I run the risk of being relentlessly criticised. "Was there ever seen a more motley collection of historical sources? Is there any one train of thought followed out, any system at all of selection? The documents chosen cover the modest period of nine hundred years of...
London: Methuen and Co., 1922. — 764 p. The form which my "History of English Law" has now taken requires a word of explanation . The first volume was begun in 1901, and the second and fird volumes were finished in 1909. From 1909 to 1921 I have been writing the history of the law from 1485 onwards.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1938. — 812 p. In the first and introductory volume, which contains Book I of this History, I have related the history of the Judicial System down to the passing of the Judicature Act in 1875.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1938. — 712 p. In the first and introductory volume, which contains Book I of this History, I have related the history of the Judicial System down to the passing of the Judicature Act in 1875.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1938. — 832 p. In the first and introductory volume, which contains Book I of this History, I have related the history of the Judicial System down to the passing of the Judicature Act in 1875.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1923. — 704 p. The form which my "History of English Law" has now taken requires a word of explanation . The first volume was begun in 1901, and the second and third volumes were finished in 1909. From 1909 to 1921 I have been writing the history of the law from 1485 onwards.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd., 1923. — 750 p. The form which my "History of English Law" has now taken requires a word of explanation . The first volume was begun in 1901, and the second and fird volumes were finished in 1909. From 1909 to 1921 I have been writing the history of the law from 1485 onwards.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd., 1922 - 1923. — 642 p. The fourth and fifth volumes of my history begin the period from 1485 to 1700 - the period which saw the development of our modern English Law from its medieval basis. This instalment carries the history of the influences which shaped the development of the law down to the first half of the seventeenth century.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1923. — 566 p. The fourth and fifth volumes of my history begin the period from 1485 to 1700 - the period which saw the development of our modern English Law from its medieval basis. This instalment carries the history of the influences which shaped the development of the law down to the first half of the seventeenth century.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1924. — 760 p. This volume concludes Part 1 of Book 4 of this history . The sixtth chapter, with which this volume opens , deal with the public law of the seventeenth century, and shows how, as the resultof the constitutional conflict of that century, our modern constitution and constitutional law have emerged.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1925. — 620 p. The Preface to this two volumes must begin with a plea of confession and avoidance. I have to confess that volume seven is not the last volume. In deals only with the history of the law of property - real property, chattels real, and chattels personal.
London: Methuen and Co, Ltd. 1926. — 500 p. In this last volume of my History the history of Status is carried on from the point at which it was left in the fourth chapter of the preceding Book; the early history of the law of Evidence is related; and the history of the law of Procedure and Pleading, both at common law and in equity, down to the statutory reforms of the last...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 252 p. — ISBN10: 1138189340; ISBN13: 978-1138189348 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...
Vol. I. London, 1839. - 321 p. In 1835 an ambitious plan, hatched by others, to produce a multi-volume edition of all the materials for the history of Britain, had foundered, and in July 1836 Kemble resolved to take upon himself the preparation of an edition of Anglo-Saxon charters, expecting that it would be complete in three or four volumes. The first two volumes of the Codex...
Vol. II. London, 1840. - 436 p. In 1835 an ambitious plan, hatched by others, to produce a multi-volume edition of all the materials for the history of Britain, had foundered, and in July 1836 Kemble resolved to take upon himself the preparation of an edition of Anglo-Saxon charters, expecting that it would be complete in three or four volumes. The first two volumes of the...
Vol. III. London, 1845. - 468 p. In 1835 an ambitious plan, hatched by others, to produce a multi-volume edition of all the materials for the history of Britain, had foundered, and in July 1836 Kemble resolved to take upon himself the preparation of an edition of Anglo-Saxon charters, expecting that it would be complete in three or four volumes. The first two volumes of the...
Vol. IV. London, 1846. - 317 p. In 1835 an ambitious plan, hatched by others, to produce a multi-volume edition of all the materials for the history of Britain, had foundered, and in July 1836 Kemble resolved to take upon himself the preparation of an edition of Anglo-Saxon charters, expecting that it would be complete in three or four volumes. The first two volumes of the...
Vol. V. London, 1847. - 403 p. In 1835 an ambitious plan, hatched by others, to produce a multi-volume edition of all the materials for the history of Britain, had foundered, and in July 1836 Kemble resolved to take upon himself the preparation of an edition of Anglo-Saxon charters, expecting that it would be complete in three or four volumes. The first two volumes of the Codex...
Vol. VI. London, 1848. - 359 p. In 1835 an ambitious plan, hatched by others, to produce a multi-volume edition of all the materials for the history of Britain, had foundered, and in July 1836 Kemble resolved to take upon himself the preparation of an edition of Anglo-Saxon charters, expecting that it would be complete in three or four volumes. The first two volumes of the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 450 p. In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria's reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought it was. Anthony King argues that the same is true at the beginning of this century. Most people...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 369 p. How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of lawmaking than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. - 278 p. This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered and used in eighteenth-century England. An international team of leading historians explore the ways in which legal concerns and procedures came to permeate society, and reflect on eighteenth-century concepts of corruption, oppression and institutional efficiency. These...
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1879. — 756 p. The Codification of the Laws of England has been long and earnestly desired. The great boon its acomplishment would secure to all classes has been universally proclaimed; but the dimensions and difficulties of the task would appear hitherto to have been regarded as sufficiently formidable to discourage the undertalking of a work of...
Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1901. — 74 p. Die Leges Henrici I. genannte Schrift wird seit dem 16. Jahrhundert hochgeschatzt als Quelle des Englische Rechts im beginnenden 12. Jahrhundert. In der Geschichte der juristischen Literatur der Britischen Inseln nimmt sie den zeitlich ersten Platz ein in der Reiche jener Rechtsbucher, welche geltendes Rechts in logischer Ordnung darstellen...
Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1894. — 122 p. Bruchstucke, theils seit dem 16 Jahrhundert von zahlreichen Erforschen des Enlischen Mittelalters haufig benutzt, theils hier zuerst veroffentlicht, will ich im Folgenden als Theile Einer Sammlung erweisen, die unter Konig Johann und bald nachher im Interesse der Stadt London hergestellt wurde.
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 399 p. In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they ought to behave. In fact, it fails to do either; it is not a correct description and it has no...
London: Oxford University Press, 1949. — 365 p. This book deal only with the tenure of agricultural lands in the Colonies. No attempt has been made to describe the conditions of urban tenure. Moreover, the study is confined to certain selected Colonies, since any attempt to cover all the Colonies would require many books.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 214 p. Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land. The received picture depends upon progressive assumptions: key words began with their later meanings; the law began with abstract ideas of property; a tenant's title to his tenement was never subject to his lord's control; the lord...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 261 p. For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the world. In the last three decades it has been a leader in innovation and its governing system has been in constant turmoil. This book, by one of Britain's leading political scientists, explains this transformation and traces its...
Liberty Fund, 2010. - 774 p. This is the second edition of 'The History of English Law before the time of Edward I', which was first published in 1898 by Cambridge University Press. The first edition was published in 1895 by Cambridge University Press. Although this book was envisaged as a joint venture and bears the name of both Pollock and Maitland, it is substantially the...
London: William Clowes and sons.1887. — 742 p. The need has-long been felt of some trustworthy exposition present state of the law relating to Criminal and Informations, Mandamus, and subjects. Quo Warranto Very many years Prohibition. have elapsed since the appearance of a of the on any of these treatise. Meanwhile the law has undergone profound modification, and the procedure...
By sir James Fitzjames Stephen : in three volumes. - London, 1883. - Vol. 1. - 576 p. Statement of the Subject of The Work Roman Criminal Law Early English Ctiminal Law The Criminal Jurisdiction of Parlament and The Court of The Lord High Steward The Criminal Jurisdiction of The Privy Council
London: William Benning and Co. 1848. — 559 p. The necessity of a Work upon the Law and Practice of the High Prerogative Writ of Mandamus, was made known to the Author during his pupillage in the Chambers of a Special Pleader, when having such a writ to pepare, he was informed that the only sources from whence the Student or Practioner could obtain any information upon this...
Sixth edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 903 p. The first five editions of this well-established book were written by Colin Turpin. This new edition has been prepared jointly by Colin Turpin and Adam Tomkins. This edition sees a major restructuring of the material, as well as a complete updating. New developments such as the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and recent...
London: William Benning. 1827. — 596 p. A Collection of the Cases relative to the Law of Corporations has been long wanted: upwards of thirty years have elapsed since the appearance of the last work which professed to treat generally on the subjects. Under the genius of Lord Mansfield it began to assume the regularity of system; but had not attained its perfection when Mr. Kyds...
Tenth Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 925 p. Combining materials from a wide variety of sources with Michael Zander’s authoritative commentary, this book provides the tools with which an observer of the English legal system can discover how it functions, the problems it faces and the current reforms proposed. The organisation of the trial courts, the problems of...
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