The writ of prohibition
Subtitle: jurisdiction in early modern English law
By: by Charles M. Gray
Edition: [2nd edition].
Publisher: [University of Chicago Law School]
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago]
Language: eng
Subjects: Prohibition (Writ); History; Jurisdiction
Notes: Volumes 1-2 originally published: New York : Oceana, 1994 (Linden studies in legal history). These volumes were scanned and edited (corrections and some additions made) for this 2nd edition.

Volumes 3-4 originally published online.

A fifth volume, incomplete at the time of the author's death, will be included in his papers, which will be available in the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center.

Volume 3 includes appendix, The Boundaries of the Equitable Function, by Charles M. Gray, originally published in The American Journal of Legal History, volume XX, pages 192-226.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: volume 1. General introduction to the study, and Procedure; title: volume 2. Control of judicial conduct by prohibition; title: volume 3. The range of jurisdiction-controlling prohibitions; title: volume 4. Prohibitions enforcing statutes.