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A Sketch of English Legal History
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A sketch of English legal history
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Table of Contents
Contents.
Chapter I - Early English Law, 600 A.D.-1066.
1
Chapter II - English Law under Norman Rule and the Legal Reforms of Henry II., 1066-1216.
26
Chapter III - Growth of Law from Henry II. to Edward I., 1154-1272.
77
Chapter IV - Legal Reform under Edward I. and the System of Writs, 1272-1307.
90
Chapter V - Growth of Statute and Common Law and Rise of the Court of Chancery, 1307-1600.
103
Chapter VI - Completion of the Common Law and Statutory Reforms after the Restoration, 1600-1688.
131
Chapter VII - The Supremacy of Parliament and Rapid Growth of Statute Law, 1688-1800.
147
Chapter VIII - Growth of Statute Law and Legal Reforms in the Nineteenth Century.
161
Appendices.
I. - The Law of Aethelbert, A.D., 600.
193
II. - Effects of the Norman Conquest on the History of English Law and on the Development of the Common Law. By Edward Jenks.
200
III. - Extracts from Magna Carta Relating to Administration of Law and Justice and Fundamtental Principles of the Constitution.
206
IV. - The Common Law -- What it Is, its Expression, and where it Is to be Found. Extracts from Blackstone's Commentaries, Sir F. Pollock's First Book of Jurisprudence, and W. C. Robinson's Elementary Law and Elements of American Jurisprudence.
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V. - Equitey. What it Is: Origin and Development if Courts of Equity. By W. C. Robinson.
219
VI. - The English Statute Book. By Sir Courtenay Ilbert.
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Index.
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.
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"Legal History. When we speak of a body of law, we use a metaphor so apt that it is hardly a metaphor."
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