Part I: Institutional background
1: The centralisation of justice
2: The institutions of the common law in its first formative period
3: The institutions of the common law in its second formative period
4: The rise of equity
Part II: Property in land
5: Tenures
6: Early actions
7: Later actions
8: Settlement of land at law
9: Uses and trusts of land
Part III: Obligations
10: Old personal actions
11: The rise of trespass and case
12: Growth of the modern law of contract
13: Rise of modern law of torts
Part IV: Crime
14: Criminal administration and law

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S.F.C. Milsom is Emeritus Professor of Legal History, St John's College, Cambridge

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