Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History - Private Law to 1750

This is a comprehensively revised and updated second edition of the definitive source book on the development of private law in England. The sources are all translated into modern English, making the book an ideal resource for students studying the history of the common law. The new edition features several previously unpublished texts.

List of contents

• Preface to the Second Edition


• Preface to the First Edition


• 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 and privity


• 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


• Index

About the author

Sir John Baker is Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England and Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple and was knighted for his services to legal history in 2003.

Summary

This is a comprehensively revised and updated second edition of the definitive source book on the development of private law in England. The sources are all translated into modern English, making the book an ideal resource for students studying the history of the common law. The new edition features several previously unpublished texts.

Product details

• Authors: John Baker, John (Downing Professor Emeritus of the Law Baker, John (Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England Baker, Baker John
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198847809
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884780-9
• No. of pages: 768
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; History, HISTORY / General, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Annotations & Citations, Systems of law, Legal History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Primary sources of law