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This book is concerned with the fundamental rules and institutions of the two systems of Roman Law and Common Law.

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Sir Julius Caesar was the servant of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I.

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Written for the beginning student as well as the experienced scholar, this introductory analysis of the origin and early development or the English ... More

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This book, first published in 1973, provides a challenging interpretation of the emergence of the common law in Anglo-Norman England.

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Questioning accepted views of common law, this book attempts to clarify the nature of common-law practice and the way in which it was envisaged by ... More

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A paperback version of Peter Buckland??'s classic textbook on Roman Law.

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Traces the development of Roman Law historically from the earliest times until the age of Justinian.

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This 1777 publication, reissued with its substantial 1784 appendix, provides systematic evidence of abuses and poor conditions in European prisons.

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This work charts the huge growth of the lower branches of the legal profession in sixteenth-century England..

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The credit for the creation of a firm basis for alien English Law and legal institutions belongs to King John, when his accession united the Lordship ... More

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The House of Lords served as the highest court in the UK for over 130 years. In 2009 the new UK Supreme Court took over its judicial functions, ... More

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The development of an autonomous English public law has been accompanied by persistent problems--a lack of systematic principles, dissatisfaction ... More

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This is a fully revised and extended edition of J. C. Holt's study of Magna Carta, the Great Charter, which sets the events of 1215 and the Charter ... More

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That Maitland's hypotheses and conclusions should still be central to such a debate is not the least remarkable feature of this extraordinary book.

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Since this book was first published in 1931 the English church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries has been studied in depth, yet Z. N. Brooke's ... More

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Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land.

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This book covers the period from the Reformation to the end of Lord Eldon's Chancellorship when the modern law of charity had taken a definite shape.

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The history of the family has become an area of great interest.

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Both a companion to and development of Maitland's celebrated Roman Canon Law in Medieval England.

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The eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny.

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This book is primarily an account of the most familiar and longest lived of English courts.

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Dr Wiswall examines the development of jurisdiction and practice in the field of Admiralty Law in England from 1798 onwards.

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Reproduces twenty litigation suits from the 16th/17th century Court of Requests, providing rich insight into the complexities of marriage rights.

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