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The law's two bodies : some evidential problems in English legal history / J.H. Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Clarendon law lecturesPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001Description: xix, 197 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199245185
  • 9780199245185
Other title:
  • Law's 2 bodies
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 349.4209 22
LOC classification:
  • KD671 .B354 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
I: Case-Law and Statute-Law -- II: Legal Fictions -- III: Common Usage and Common Learning -- Appendices: Some Illustrative Texts -- A: Common Practice and Communis Error -- B: Fictions in Writs and Pleadings -- C: Fictions in Trial: Benefit of Clergy for Laymen -- D: Linguistic Fictions -- E: Improper Fictions -- F: Common Learning -- G: Opinions of Counsel.
Summary: "The volume examines the informal sources of English Law that lie undiscovered because they are not included in Statutes, law reports, or in current legal teaching. Through his work with primary documents the author shows that this informal source of law is too important to go unnoticed by legal historians and commentators."--Publisher description.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 349.4209 BAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A445084B

Series statement on jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I: Case-Law and Statute-Law -- II: Legal Fictions -- III: Common Usage and Common Learning -- Appendices: Some Illustrative Texts -- A: Common Practice and Communis Error -- B: Fictions in Writs and Pleadings -- C: Fictions in Trial: Benefit of Clergy for Laymen -- D: Linguistic Fictions -- E: Improper Fictions -- F: Common Learning -- G: Opinions of Counsel.

"The volume examines the informal sources of English Law that lie undiscovered because they are not included in Statutes, law reports, or in current legal teaching. Through his work with primary documents the author shows that this informal source of law is too important to go unnoticed by legal historians and commentators."--Publisher description.

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