"Written with students in mind, Baker: An Introduction to English Legal History provides an introduction to the common law and English legal culture through the dimension of history. It traces in outline, the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present.The introduction has become a standard work on the subject. It has now been updated and improved in consequence of the rapid pace of research in legal history over recent year, which has made this new edition a necessity.To assist the student further, this new edition has been fully cross-referenced to the relevant sources found in Baker & Milsom: Sources of English Legal History."

Table of Contents

PART ONE; 1. Law and Custom in Early Britain; 2. Origins of the Common Law; 3. The Superior Courts of Common Law; 4. The Forms of Action; 5. The Jury and Pleading; 6. The Court of Chancery and Equity; 7. The Concilliar Courts; 8. The Concilliar Courts; 9. Judicial Review of Decisions; 10. The Legal Profession; 11. Legal Literature; 12. Law Making; PART TWO; 13. Real Property: Feudal Tenure; 14. Real Property: Feudalism and Uses; 15. Real Property: Inheritance and Estates; 16. Real Property: Family Settlements; 17. Other Interests in Land; 18. Contract: Covenant and Debt; 19. Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit; 20. Contract: Some Later Developments; 21. Quasi-Contract; 22. Property in Chattels Personal; 23. Negligence; 24. Nuisance; 25. Defamation; 26. Economic Torts; 27. Persons: Status and Liberty; 28. Persons: Marriage and its Consequences; 29. Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure; 30. Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal Law