A Natural History of the Common Law
How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in legal history and criticism, one of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians S. F. C. Milsom focuses on the development of English common law -- the intellectually coherent system of substantive rules that courts bring to bear on the particular facts of individual cases -- from which American law was to grow. Milsom discusses the...
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How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? One of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians focuses on the development of English common law — the intellectually coherent system of substantive rules that courts bring to bear on the particular facts of individual cases — from which American law was to grow.
PrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChronological List of PublicationsIMaking Law: Lawyers and Laymen1IIChanging Law: Fictions and Forms25IIIManagement, Custom, and Law51IVHistory and Lost Assumptions75Notes109Index131
