Sources of English legal history : private law to 1750

Author(s)

• Milsom, S. F. C. (Stroud Francis Charles)
• Baker, John Hamilton

Bibliographic Information

Sources of English legal history : private law to 1750

[compiled by] J.H. Baker and S.F.C. Milsom

Butterworths, 1986

• Hardcover
• Softcover

Note

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

" This is the definitive work in its area, filling the need for a source book illustrating the development of English private law to 1750. Designed to be used as a companion volume to Baker: Introduction to English Legal History or to Milsom's Historical Foundations of the Common Law"

Table of Contents

• 1. Tenure: services and incidents
• 2. Actions concerning land
• 3. Family interests and settlements at common law
• 4. Uses, wills and trusts
• 5. Executory interests under the Statute of Uses
• 6. The term of years
• 7. Copyhold
• 8. Debt
• 9. Detinue
• 10. Covenant
• 11. Account
• 12. Trespass
• 13. Trespass on the case
• 14. Assumpsit for misfeasance
• 15. Assumpsit for nonfeasance
• 16. Assumpsit in lieu of debt
• 17. Assumpsit against executors for money
• 18. Various developments of the money counts
• 19. Consideration
• 20. Actions on the case for deceit
• 21. Actions on the case for conversion
• 22. Actions on the case for negligence
• 23. Actions on the case for nuisance
• 24. Actions on the case for various kinds of economic loss
• 25. Actions on the case for defamation

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA00412806
• ISBN:
  • 0406016402
  • 0406016410
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xl, 698 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KD720
  • DC19 : 344.206/09
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : England. Private law, 1200-1750 - Readings from contemporary sources
  • LCSH : Civil law -- England -- History -- Sources