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100 1 $aPlucknett, Theodore Frank Thomas,$d1897-1965.
245 12 $aA concise history of the common law /$cby Theodore F.T. Plucknett.
250 $a5th ed.
260 0 $aBoston :$bLittle, Brown,$c1956.
300 $axxvi, 746, 56 p. ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical footnotes and index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Table of Mediaeval cases -- Table of modern cases -- Table of laws and statutes -- Book One: A general survey of legal history -- Part 1: The Crown and state -- 1. The Anglo-Saxon period: races and religion -- 2. The Conquest to Henry II: the beginnings of administration -- 3. The Great Charters: law separates from administration -- 4. Edward I to Richard II: statutes and social revolution -- 5. The fifteenth century: the problem of enforcement -- 6. The Tudors: Renassance, Reformation, and reception -- 7. The Stuarts: struggle for the supremacy of law -- 8. The Eighteenth century: industrial revolution -- 9. The Nineteenth century: liberalism and reform -- Part II: The Courts and the profession -- 1. The Communal Courts -- 2. Seignorial jurisdiction -- 3. The Crown and local courts -- 4. The jury -- 5. The origins of the Central Courts -- 6. The eleboration of the judicial system: 1307-1509 -- 7. The Tudors and the Common Law Courts --
505 0 $a8. The rise of the Prerogative Courts -- 9. Prerogative, equity and law under the Stuarts -- 10. Parliament and the Privy Council -- 11. The courts in the nineteenth century -- 12. The legal profession -- 13. The growth of the judiciary -- 14. Professional literature -- Part III: Some factors in legal history -- 1. The civil law of Rome -- 2. The Canon Law of the Church -- 3. Custom -- 4. Legislation -- 5. The principle of precedent -- Book Two: Special Part -- Part I: Procedure -- 1. The forms of action -- 2. Civil procedure -- 3. Pleading -- Part II: Crime and tort -- 1. Criminal procedure -- 2. The felonies -- 3. Misdemeanours, trespass and tort -- 4. Liability, civil and criminal -- 5. Defamation -- Part III: Real property -- 1. Feudalism -- 2. Feudalism in England -- 3. Inheritance and alienability -- 4. Tenures and incidents -- 5. The rise of the entail -- 6. The common law estates down to 1540 -- 7. Uses and the statutes -- 8. The later law of real property --
505 0 $a9. The mortgage -- 10. Conveyances -- Part IV : Contract -- 1. Origins -- 2. The fourteenth century -- 3. Assumpsit to Slade's case -- 4. Contract after Slade's case -- 5. Law merchant and admiralty -- Part V: Equity -- 1. The early history of equity -- 2. The formative period -- 3. The work of the Chancellors -- Part VI: Succession -- 1. Inheritance -- 2. Intestacy -- 3. Wills -- Index
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aPlucknett, Theodore Frank Thomas, 1897-1965.$tConcise history of the common law.$b5th ed.$dBoston : Little, Brown, 1956$w(OCoLC)581030080
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