The English legal system / [by] Radcliffe and Cross
Imprint
London : Butterworths, 1971
Edition
5th ed / by Lord Cross of Chelsea and G. J. Hand
Descript
x, 472 p ; 22 cm
CONTENT
The Anglo-saxon period -- The Norman period, 1066-1154 -- The Early angevins, 1154-1215 -- The Development of parliament and the central courts -- The Criminal law in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The Civil law in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The Council and the court of star chamber -- The Court of chancery from its origin to the restoration -- The Court of chancery from the restoration to the nineteenth centry -- The Common law-fifteenth to eighteenth centuries -- The Criminal courts-fifteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Courts of appeal: the exchequer chamber and the house of lords -- Courts of special jurisdiction -- The Superior courts of law and equity, 1825-1875 -- The Modern county courts -- The Supreme court of judicature -- The Modern criminal courts -- The Privy council -- Case law and statute law -- The Legal profession -- The Legal system and the state