The birth of the English common law

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Label

The birth of the English common law

Statement of responsibility

R.C. van Caenegem

Creator

• Caenegem, R. C. van

Author

• Caenegem, R. C. van

Subject

• Common law -- Great Britain -- History
• Law -- Great Britain -- History

Language

eng

Summary

This book provides a challenging interpretation of the emergence of the common law in Anglo-Norman England, against the background of the general development of legal institutions in Europe. In a detailed discussion of the emergence of the central courts and the common law they administered, the author traces the rise of the writ system and the growth of the jury system in twelfth-century England. Professor van Caenegem attempts to explain why English law is so different from that on the Continent and why this divergence began in the twelfth century, arguing that chance and chronological accident played the major part and led to the paradox of a feudal law of continental origin becoming one of the most typical manifestations of English life and thought. First published in 1973, The Birth of the English Common Law has come to enjoy classical status, and in a preface Professor van Caenegem discusses some recent developments in the study of English law under the Norman and earliest Angevin kings

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

KD671.Z9

LC item number

C3 1988

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries