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Plucknett’s work provides a common-law understanding of individual rights, not in theory only, but protected through the confusing and messy evolution of courts, and their administration as they struggled to resolve real problems. The first half of the book is a historical introduction to the study of law. The second half of the book consists of chapters introducing the reader to the history of some of the main divisions of law, such as criminal tort, property, contract, and succession.
The Best Edition of this Classic History: A Comprehensive Legal History of England from the Anglo-Saxon Period through the 19th Century. Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett [1897-1965] received his LL.B. from the University of Cambridge in 1920. He was a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor of Legal History, University of London, and Assistant Professor of Legal History at Harvard University. He was also the author of Early English Legal Literature (1958) and Edward I and Criminal Law (1960). "Professor Plucknett has such a solid reputation on both sides of the Atlantic that one expects from his pen only what is scholarly and accurate... Nor is the expectation likely to be disappointed in this book. Plucknett's book is not...a mere epitome of what is to be found elsewhere. He has explored on his own account many regions of legal history and, even where the ground has been already quartered, he has fresh methods of mapping it. The title which he has chosen is, in view of the contents of the volume, rather a narrow one. It might equally well have been A Concise History of English Law... In conjunction with Readings on the History and System of the Common Law by Dean Pound...this book will give an excellent grounding to the student of English legal history." --Percy H. Winfield. Harvard Law Review 43 (1929-30) 339-340. "[T]his book, comprehensive yet not elementary, clear yet inviting further study on the part of the reader, remains an excellent introduction to legal history and the study of law."-- Harvard Law Review 50 (1937-38) 1012. Selected Contents Book One A General Survey of Legal History Part I The Crown and the State Part II The Courts and the Profession Part III Some Factors in Legal History Book Two Special Part Part I Procedure Part II Crime and Tort Part III Real Property Part IV Contract Part V Equity Part VI Succession Index
Contents
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Table of Mediaeval Cases
Table of Modern Cases N.b. the Report References, Which
Appeared In This Table In Earlier Editions, Will Be Found
Incorporated In the Footnotes In the Text.
Table of Laws and Statutes
A Concise History of the Common Law
Book One: a General Survey of Legal History
Part I: The Crown and the State
Summary
The Anglo-saxon Period: Races and Religion
The Conquest to Henry II: The Beginnings of Administration
The Great Charters: Law Separates From Administration
Edward I to Richard II: Statutes and Social Revolution
The Fifteenth Century: the Problem of Enforcement
The Tudors: Renaissance, Reformation and Reception
The Stuarts: Struggle For the Supremacy of Law
The Eighteenth Century: Industrial Revolution
The Nineteenth Century: Liberalism and Reform
Part II: The Courts and the Profession
Summary
The Communal Courts
Seignorial Jurisdiction
The Crown and Local Courts
The Jury
The Origins of the Central Courts
The Elaboration of the Judicial System: 1307-1509
The Tudors and the Common Law Courts
The Rise of the Prerogative Courts
Prerogative, Equity and Law Under the Stuarts
Parliament and the Privy Council
The Courts In the Nineteenth Century
The Legal Profession
The Growth of the Judiciary
Professional Literature
Part III: Some Factors In Legal History
Summary
The Civil Law of Rome
The Canon Law of the Church
Custom
Legislation
The Principle of Precedent
Book Two: Special Part
Part I: Procedure
Summary
The Forms of Action
Civil Procedure
Pleading
Part II: Crime and Tort
Summary
Criminal Procedure
The Felonies
Misdemeanours, Trespass and Tort
Liability, Civil and Criminal
Defamation
Part III: Real Property
Summary
Feudalism
Feudalism In England
Inheritance and Alienability
Tenures and Incidents
The Rise of the Entail
The Common Law Estates Down to 1540
Uses and the Statute
The Later Law of Real Property
The Mortgage
Conveyances
Part IV: Contract
Summary
Origins
The Fourteenth Century
Assumpsit to Slade’s Case
After Slade’s Case
Law Merchant and Admiralty
Part V: Equity
Summary
The Early History of Equity
The Formative Period
The Work of the Chancellors
Part VI: Succession
Summary
Inheritance
Intestacy
Wills