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List of contents
- Part one
- 1: Law and Custom before 1066
- 2: The Common Law of England
- 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 Conciliar Courts
- 8: The Ecclesiastical 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: Uses and Fiscal Feudalism
- 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
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
About the author
Sir John Baker is the Downing Professor of the Laws of England and 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 fifth edition of the definitive history of the development of the common law in England.
