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

About the Author

J.H. Baker, Downing Professor of the Laws of England and Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge; Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple