Sources of English legal history : private law to 1750
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Sources of English legal history : private law to 1750
Butterworths, 1986
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- Softcover
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Includes indexes
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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
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