The Law's Two Bodies: Some Evidential Problems in English Legal History

by J. H. Baker

Overview

The volume examines the informal sources of English Law that lie undiscovered because they are not included in Statutes, law reports, or in current legal teaching. Through his work with primary documents the author shows that this informal source of law is too important to go unnoticed by legal historians and commentators.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199245185
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/06/2001
Series:	Clarendon Law Lectures
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Baker is Downing Professor of the Laws of England.

Table of Contents

I. Case-Law and Statute-LawII. Legal FictionsIII. Common Usage and Common LearningAppendices: Some Illustrated TextsA. Common Practice and Communis ErrorB. Fictions in Writs and PleadingsC. Fictions in Trial: Benefit of Clergy for LaymenD. Linguistic FictionsE. Improper FictionsF. Common LearningG. Opinions of CounselIndex