About this title: Scholars of comparative law and English legal history have traditionally distinguished the civil law's emphasis on legislation as the primary source of legal authority from the common law's emphasis on custom and on case law. In this text, the author finds little evidence to support this and other traditional understandings of English jurisprudence. Examining thousands of legal and judicial documents for references to the nature and authority of custom, case law, statutes, equity and reason, J.W. Tubbs depicts the tensions within and the evolution of English legal thought between the 12th and ...
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Edition: Text is Free of Markings
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780801862090ISBN:0801862094
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 253 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. read more
Description: Tubbs, J.W. The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, [2000]. xiii, 253 pp. Cloth in dust jacket. New. * Revises a whole tradition of thinking about the nature and development of common law and its role in statutory interpretation. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardbound
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780801862090ISBN:0801862094
Description: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xvi, 253 pp., notes, bibliography, index. read more
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