A sketch of English legal history
By: by Frederic W. Maitland and Francis C. Montague ; edited with notes and appendices by James F. Colby.
Contributors: Montague, F. C. 1858-1935.; Colby, James Fairbanks, 1850-1939.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Clark, NJ, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781616190675
Subjects: Law -- Great Britain -- History
Description: Facsimile reproduction of the 1915 edition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915.
Table of contents: label: Contents; title: 1
label: Chapter I - Early English Law, 600 A.D.-1066; title: 26
label: Chapter II - English Law under Norman Rule and the Legal Reforms of Henry II., 1066-1216; title: 77
label: Chapter III - Growth of Law from Henry II. to Edward I., 1154-1272; title: 90
label: Chapter IV - Legal Reform under Edward I. and the System of Writs, 1272-1307; title: 103
label: Chapter V - Growth of Statute and Common Law and Rise of the Court of Chancery, 1307-1600; title: 131
label: Chapter VI - Completion  of the Common Law and Statutory Reforms after the Restoration, 1600-1688; title: 147
label: Chapter VII - The Supremacy of Parliament and Rapid Growth of Statute Law, 1688-1800; title: 161
label: Chapter VIII - Growth of Statute Law and Legal Reforms in the Nineteenth Century; label: Appendices; title: 193
label: I. - The Law of Aethelbert, A.D., 600; title: 200
label: II. - Effects of the Norman Conquest on the History of English Law and on the Development of the Common Law. By Edward Jenks; title: 206
label: III. - Extracts from Magna Carta Relating to Administration of Law and Justice and Fundamtental Principles of the Constitution; title: 209
label: 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; title: 219
label: V. - Equitey. What it Is: Origin and Development if Courts of Equity. By W. C. Robinson; title: 211
label: VI. - The English Statute Book. By Sir Courtenay Ilbert; title: 227
label: Index