Baker, John H.

Baker and Milsom sources of English legal history : private law to 1750 / by Sir John Baker. - 2nd ed. - Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xlix, 764 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tenure : services and incidents -- Actions concerning land -- Family interests and settlements at common law -- Uses, wills and trusts -- Executory interests under the Statute of Uses -- The term of years -- Copyhold -- Debt -- Detinue -- Covenant -- Account -- Trespass -- Trespass on the case -- Assumpsit for misfeasance -- Assumpsit for nonfeasance -- Assumpsit in lieu of debt -- Assumpsit against executors for money -- Various developments of the money counts -- Consideration and privity -- Actions on the case for deceit -- Actions on the case for conversion -- Actions on the case for negligence -- Actions on the case for nuisance -- Actions on the case for various kinds of economic loss -- Actions on the case for defamation.

9780199546800 (hbk.) GBP54.00


Civil law -- History -- England -- Sources.
Civil law -- History -- Wales -- Sources.