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Imagining the law : common law and the foundations of the American legal system / Norman F. Cantor.
LIBRA KF394 .C36 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cantor, Norman F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Common law--United States.
- Common law.
- United States.
- Law--United States--History.
- Law.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 416 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1997]
- Contents:
- 1. Law and Legal History 1
- 2. Ancient Advocacy: Cicero 15
- 3. The Justinian Heritage 27
- 4. Glanville's World 48
- 5. Englishmen and Frenchmen 74
- 6. Kings, Lords, and Lawyers 95
- 7. Bracton's Courtroom 120
- 8. The Advent of Liberalism 141
- 9. Gentrification 164
- 10. Deep Structure 190
- 11. Judicial Frontiers 212
- 12. Law and Power 237
- 13. Law and Revolution 262
- 14. The Rise of Liberalism 286
- 15. The Age of Coke 301
- 16. From Oliver Cromwell to William Blackstone 323
- 17. American Lawyers and the Common Law 352.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-399) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060171944
- OCLC:
- 36597694
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