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The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as a design element in Liberty Fund books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.
The 2010 Liberty Fund print edition was reproduced from the fifth edition originally published by Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
A Concise History of the Common Law, © 1929, renewed 1956, by Theodore F. T. Plucknett. Reprinted by permission.
This eBook edition published in 2013.
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CONTENTS
BOOK ONE A GENERAL SURVEY OF LEGAL HISTORY
PART I THE CROWN AND THE STATE
CHAPTER 1. THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD: RACES AND RELIGION
CHAPTER 2. THE CONQUEST TO HENRY II: THE BEGINNINGS OF ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3. THE GREAT CHARTERS: LAW SEPARATES FROM ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 4. EDWARD I TO RICHARD II: STATUTES AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
CHAPTER 5. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY: THE PROBLEM OF ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 6. THE TUDORS: RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION AND RECEPTION
CHAPTER 7. THE STUARTS: STRUGGLE FOR THE SUPREMACY OF LAW
CHAPTER 8. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
CHAPTER 9. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: LIBERALISM AND REFORM
PART II THE COURTS AND THE PROFESSION
CHAPTER 1. THE COMMUNAL COURTS
CHAPTER 2. SEIGNORIAL JURISDICTION
CHAPTER 3. THE CROWN AND LOCAL COURTS
CHAPTER 5. THE ORIGINS OF THE CENTRAL COURTS
CHAPTER 6. THE ELABORATION OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM: 1307-1509
CHAPTER 7. THE TUDORS AND THE COMMON LAW COURTS
CHAPTER 8. THE RISE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURTS
CHAPTER 9. PREROGATIVE, EQUITY AND LAW UNDER THE STUARTS
CHAPTER 10. PARLIAMENT AND THE PRIVY COUNCIL
CHAPTER 11. THE COURTS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER 12. THE LEGAL PROFESSION
CHAPTER 13. THE GROWTH OF THE JUDICIARY
CHAPTER 14. PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE
PART III SOME FACTORS IN LEGAL HISTORY
CHAPTER 1. THE CIVIL LAW OF ROME
CHAPTER 2. THE CANON LAW OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER 5. THE PRINCIPLE OF PRECEDENT
BOOK TWO SPECIAL PART
