Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History

Private Law to 1750

Second Edition

John Baker

The definitive source book on the development of the common law of persons, obligations, and property - an essential reference point for all legal historians or comparative lawyers engaged in this history of the common law
Translates the sources into modern, accessible English, making the primary materials accessible to students of legal history
The sources themselves offer a rich resource for historians of English society, government, and economics, revealing the operation of the courts in personal and economic disputes

New to this Edition:

Includes new sources discovered since the first edition published in 1986
Comprehensively revised and updated in light of recent scholarship, including corrections to some sources in light of law reports that were previously unavailable

Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History

Private Law to 1750

Second Edition

John Baker

Description

Baker and Milsom's Sources of English Legal History is the definitive source book on the development of English private law. This new edition has been comprehensively revised and udpated to incorporate new sources discovered since the original publication in 1986, and to reflect developments in recent scholarship.

All the sources included are translated into modern English, offering an accessible inroad to the leading primary materials for students of the history of the common law.

The sources themselves - revealing the operation of courts across a wide range of personal and economic disputes - offer a rich resource for historians researching the development of the English government, society, and economy. Their significance in shaping the common law spans beyond England, and ensures the collection is an essential reference point for all those interested in the history of the common law in any jurisdiction.

Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History

Private Law to 1750

Second Edition

John Baker

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1:Tenure: services and incidents
2:Actions concerning land
3:Family interests and settlements at common law
4:Uses, wills, and trusts
5:Executory interests under the Statute of Uses
6:The term of years
7:Copyhold
8:Debt
9:Detinue
10:Covenant
11:Account
12:Trespass
13:Trespass on the case
14:Assumpsit for misfeasance
15:Assumpsit for nonfeasance
16:Assumpsit in lieu of debt
17:Assumpsit against executors for money
18:Various developments of the money counts
19:Consideration and privity
20:Actions on the case for deceit
21:Actions on the case for conversion
22:Actions on the case for negligence
23:Actions on the case for nuisance
24:Actions on the case for various kinds of economic loss
25:Actions on the case for defamation
Index

Baker and Milsom Sources of English Legal History

Private Law to 1750

Second Edition

John Baker

Author Information

John Baker, Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England, St Catharine's College, Cambridge

Sir John Baker is Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England and Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple and was knighted for his services to legal history in 2003.