The Common Law Tradition

The essays in this volume are concerned with the traditions that have shaped the common law and the English legal mind through history, notably the profession, its structure, its technical language and its literature. The Inns of Court and chancery are a central issue in the text. However the author also looks at institutions, such as local courts, which operated on the fringes of the common law, as well as courses in conveyancing provided at Oxford between the 13th- and 15th-centuries, the origins of law reporting and the first identifiable English year-book reporter. There is also an account of the short-lived practice of reporting criminal cases at Newgate in the early 14th-century and a suggestion that the spread of law reporting on the continent of Europe was begun by Englishmen serving in the 14th-century curia at Avignon.

ISBN 1852851813   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781852851811 (What's this?)   Pages 352 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Volumes 1 Imprint Hambledon Continuum   Weight (grammes) 826 Format Hardback   Published in London Publication date 01 Jul 1999   Height (mm) 240 Non-book description xxxiv, 404 p. :   Width (mm) 158 Library of Congress 99032559   Spine width (mm) 38 DEWEY 340.570942   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Illustrations
		Acknowledgments
		Preface
		Abbreviations
		Table of Statutes
		Table of Cases
Pt. I		Lawyers
1		The Third University of England		3
2		The Division of the Temple: Inner, Middle and Outer		29
3		The Inns of Court and Legal Doctrine		37
4		The Judges as Visitors to the Inns of Court		53
5		The Degree of Barrister		69
6		Audience in the Courts		77
7		The Rank of Queen's Counsel		89
Pt. II		Law Books
8		Case-Law in England and Continental Europe		107
9		Dr. Thomas Fastolf and the History of Law Reporting		117
10		Case-Law in Medieval England		133
11		Some Early Newgate Reports, 1315-26		165
12		John Bryt's Reports and the Year Books of Henry IV		187
13		Editing the Sources of English Legal History		207
Pt. III		Legal Institutions and the Law
14		The Three Languages of English Law		225
15		Westminster Hall		247
16		Personal Actions in the High Court of Battle Abbey, 1450-1602		263
17		The Use of Assumpsit for Restitutionary Money Claims, 1500-1800		285
18		Personal Liberty under the Common Law, 1200-1600		317
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