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The law's two bodies : some evidential problems in English legal history / J.H. Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, John H. (John Hamilton)
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Clarendon law lectures
- [Clarendon law lectures] The law's two bodies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Common law--History--Sources.
- Common law.
- Fictions (Law)--Great Britain--History.
- Fictions (Law).
- Common law--History--Great Britain--Sources.
- Fictions (Law)--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 197 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Informal sources of English law lie undiscovered because they are not included in Statutes, law reports or in current legal teaching. The author argues that these informal sources are too important to go unnoticed by legal historians and commentators.
- Contents:
- Lecture 1. Case-Law and Statute-Law
- Lecture 2. Legal Fictions
- Lecture 3. Common Usage and Common Learning.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-170517-9
- 1-280-44661-7
- 1-4237-8569-X
- OCLC:
- 1027156201
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