Shaping the common law
Subtitle: from Glanvill to Hale, 1188-1688
By: essays by Thomas Garden Barnes ; edited and with an introduction by Allen D. Boyer.
Contributors: Boyer, Allen D.
Series: Jurists-- profiles in legal theory
Publisher: Stanford Law Books an imprint of Stanford University Press; Stanford Law Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780804757140
Subjects: Common law -- History; Common law -- England -- History
Description: "In a series of fifteen essays, this book discusses the contributions of the great common-law jurists and singular documents-namely the Magna Carta and the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts - that have shaped common law; from its origins in twelfth-century England to its arrival in the American colonies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Glanvill; title: Magna Carta; title: Thomas Littleton; title: John Fortescue; title: Richard Hooker; title: James VI and I; title: Francis Bacon; title: Sir Edward Coke; title: Michael Dalton; title: William Hudson; title: John Selden; title: John Milton; title: The laws and liberties of Massachusetts; title: Trial of Charles I; title: Matthew Hale.