Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History / edited by John Henry Wigmore, Ernst Freund, William E. Mikell.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Mikell, William E. (William Ephraim), 1868-1945, editor.
• Freund, Ernst, 1864-1932, editor.
• Wigmore, John Henry, 1863-1943, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Law--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1907.

Contents:

• VOLUME ONE:
• Part One: Before the Norman conquest
• 1. A prologue to a history of English law / Frederic William Maitland
• 2. The development of teutonic law / Edward Jenks
• 3. English law before the Norman conquest / Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart
• Part Two: From the Norman conquest to the eighteenth century
• 4. The centralization of Norman justice under Henry II / Alice Stopford (Mrs. John Richard) Green
• 5. Edward I, The English Justinian / Edward Jenks
• 6. English law and the renaissance / Frederic William Maitland
• 7. Roman law influence in chancery, church courts, admiralty, andd law merchant / Thomas Edward Scrutton
• 8. The history of the canon law in England / William Stubbs
• 9. The development of the law merchant / William Searle Holdsworth
• 10. A comparison of the history of legal development at Rome and in England / James Bryce
• Part Three: The American colonial period
• 11. English common law in the early American colonies / Paul Samuel Reinsch
• 12. The extension of English statutes to the plantations / St. George Leakin Sioussat
• 13. The influence of colonial conditions, as illustrated in the Connecticut intestacy law / Charles McLean Andrews
• Part Four: Expansion and reform of the law in the nineteenth century
• 14. Anticipations under the commonwealth of changes in the law / R. Robinson
• 15. Bentham's influence in the reforms of the nineteenth century / John Forrest Dillon
• 16. Progress in the administration of justice during the victorian period / Charles Synge Christopher, Baron Bowen
• 17. The development of jurisprudence during the nineteenth century / Joseph Henry Beale, Jr
• 18. The extension of Roman and English law throughout the world / James Bryce
• Part Five: Bench and var from Norman times to the nineteenth century
• 19. The five ages of the bench and bar of England / John Maxcy Zane
• 20. A century of English judicature / Van Vechten Veeder
• 21. An American law student of a hundred years ago / James Kent
• VOLUME TWO:
• Part One: Sources
• 22. The sources of English law / Heinrich Brunner
• 23. Materials for the history of English law / Frederic William Maitland
• 24. The year books / William Searle Holdsworth
• 25. The English reports, 1537-1865 / Van Vechten Veeder
• 26. An historical survey of ancient English statutes / The commissioners
• Part Two: The courts, their organization and jurisdiction
• 27. The courts as established under Edward I / Frederic Andrew Inderwick
• 28. The history of the court of chancery / George Spence
• 29. The ecclesiastical courts and their jurisdiction / William Searle Holdsworth
• 30. The history of the admiralty jurisdiction / Thomas Lambert Mears
• Part Three: Procedure
• 31. The older modes of trial / James Bradley Thayer
• 32. The king's peace in the middle ages / Sir Frederick Pollock
• 33. The methods of the royal courts of justice in the fifteenth century / Hubert Hall
• 34. Criminal procedure, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century / Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
• 35. The story of the Habeas Corpus / Edward Jenks
• 36. The history of the register of original writs / Frederic William Maitland
• 37. An action at law in the reign of Edward III / Luke Owen Pike
• 38. The development of oral and written pleading / William Searle Holdsworth
• 39. The historical development of code pleading in America and England / Charles McGuffey Hepburn
• 40. A general survey of the history of the rules of Evidence / John Henry Wigmore
• Part Four: Equity
• 41. Early English equity / Oliver Wendell Holmes
• 42. Common law and conscience in the ancient court of chancery / Luke Owne Pike
• 43. Tyrrel's case and modern trusts / James Barr Ames
• 44. The development of equity pleading from canon law procedure / Christopher Columbus Langdell
• 45. Courts of chancery in the American colonies / Solon Dyke Wilson
• 46. The administration of equity through common law forms in Pennsylvania / Sidney George Fisher
• Volume 3: VOLUME TWO (CONTINUED):
• Part Five: Commercial law
• 47. General survey of the history of the law merchant / Thomas Edward Scrutton
• 48. The merchants of the staple / Spencer Brodhurst
• 49. Contributions of the law merchant to the common law / Francis Marion Burdick
• 50. The early history of negotiable instruments / Edward Jenks
• 51. Promissory notes before and after Lord Holt / William Cranch
• 52. The early history of insurance law / William Reynolds Vance
• 53. The early history of the English patent system / Edward Wyndham Hulme
• 54. The history of the carrier's liability / Joseph Henry Beale, Jr
• 55. Early forms of corprateness / Cecil Thomas Carr
• 56. Early forms of partnership / William Mitchell
• 57. The history of the law of business corporations before 1800 / Samuel Williston
• 58. History of the law of private corporations in the colonies and states / Simeon Eben Baldwin
• Part Six: Contracts
• 59. The history of assumpsit / James Barr Ames
• 60. The history of parol contracts prior to assumpsit / James Barr Ames
• 61. The history of contract / John William Salmond
• 62. History of the beneficiary's action in assumpsit / Crawford Dawes hening
• 63. The history of agency / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
• Part Seven: Torts
• 64. The history of Trover / James Barr Ames
• 65. The history of the law of defamation / Van Vechten Veeder
• 66. Responsibility for tortious acts: Its history / John Henry Wigmore
• Part Eight: Property (In general)
• 67. The disseisin of chattels / James Barr Ames
• 68. The mystery of seisin / Frederic William Maitland
• 69. The history of the action of ejection in England and the United States / Arthur George Sedgwick and Frederick Scott Wait
• 70. The gage of land in medieval England / Harold Dexter Hazeltine
• 71. Changes in the English law of real property during the nineteenth century / Arthur Underhill
• Part Nine: Wills, descent, marriage
• 72. The medieval law of intestacy / Charles Gross
• 73. Executors in earlier English law / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
• 74. The executor in England and on the continent / Robert Caillemer
• 75. The rise of the English will / Melville Madison Bigelow
• 76. Marriage and divorce under Roman and English law / James Bryce.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Little, Brown and Co., viewed August 9, 2023).