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

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John Baker (Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England, Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England, St Catharine's College, Cambridge)

Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History

Private Law to 1750

John Baker (Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England, Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England, St Catharine's College, Cambridge)

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Oxford University Press
20 May 2010

Reference works; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Systems of law; Legal history; Primary sources of law

Baker and Milsom's Sources of English Legal History is the definitive source book on the development of English private law.

This new edition has been comprehensively revised and udpated to incorporate new sources discovered since the original publication in 1986, and to reflect developments in recent scholarship.

All the sources included are translated into modern English, offering an accessible inroad to the leading primary materials for students of the history of the common law.

The sources themselves - revealing the operation of courts across a wide range of personal and economic disputes - offer a rich resource for historians researching the development of the English government, society, and economy.

Their significance in shaping the

common law spans beyond England, and ensures the collection is an essential reference point for all those interested in the history of the common law in any jurisdiction.

By: John Baker (Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England St Catharine's College Cambridge)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 44mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780199546800
ISBN 10: 0199546800
Pages: 816
Publication Date: 20 May 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Professor Sir John Baker is the Downing Professor of the Laws of England Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Knighted for his services to legal history in 2003, he has published widely on the subject, including An Introduction to Legal History (4th edition, OUP, 2002), The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI (OUP, 2003) and The Law's Two Bodies (OUP, 2001).