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Legal Research Guides by Course - English Legal History

Course Description

The course will include topics such as, Law and Custom in Early Britain, Origins of the Common Law, The Superior Courts of Common Law, The Forms of Action, The Jury and Pleading, The Court of Chancery and Equity, The Conciliar Courts, The Ecclesiastical Courts, Judicial Review of Decisions, The Legal Profession, Legal Literature, Law Making, Real Property: Feudal Tenure, Real Property: Feudalism and Uses, Real Property: Inheritance and Estates, Real Property: Family Settlements, other Interests in Land Contract: Covenant and Debt, Contract: Assumpsit and Deceit, Contract: Some Later Developments, Quasi-Contract, Property in Chattels Personal, Negligence, Nuisance, Defamation, Economic Torts, Persons: Status and Liberty, Persons: Marriage and its Consequences, Pleas of the Crown: Criminal Procedure, and Pleas of the Crown: The Substantive Criminal Law. The professor will present additional information on English History in the 1600s. (2 credits)

Faculty Who Teach This Course

  • Kenneth E. Gray (Professor of Law)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by

Print Collection

KD530-KD632 Law of England and Wales - History
KD671 Common Law
KD834-KD838 Feudal Tenure
KD6850-KD6857 History of Courts in General
KD6870-KD6947 Courts and Procedures before the Judicature Act of 1873 - Superior Courts
KD6965-KD6992 Courts and Procedures before the Judicature Act of 1873 - Lower Courts
KD7849-KD7852 Criminal Law - History
KD8682 Ecclesiastical Courts - History - Court of High Commission - Older Courts

Legal Research Databases

created 10/22/2012
Patricia Horvath