[PDF] The History Of The Common Law Of England eBook

Author : John Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1351669974

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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 : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Common law
ISBN : 1584771372

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Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Author : Paul Brand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139505572

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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.

Author : Matthew Hale
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Common law
ISBN : 1584770244

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The highly respected first history of the common law ever written is reprinted here in its first edition. A series of chronological essays that were not intended for publication comprise a sketch of the history of legal doctrine.