Baker and Milsom sources of English legal history : private law to 1750 / by Sir John Baker.

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.