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.

Law.

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:

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