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  • The Forms of Action at Common Law: A Course of Lectures

    The Forms of Action at Common Law by Maitland, Frederic William; Chaytor, A. H.; Whittaker, W. J.;

    A Course of Lectures

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 3 January 1936

    • ISBN 9780521091855
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages88 pages
    • Size 215x137x8 mm
    • Weight 127 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This study looks at the forms of action and how they are a part of the structure upon which rests the whole common law of England.

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    Long description:

    The forms of action are a part of the structure upon which rests the whole common law of England and, though we may have buried them, they still, as Maitland says, rule us from their graves. The following extract is taken from the editors' preface: 'The evasion of the burden of archaic procedure and of such barbaric tests of truth as battle, ordeal and wager of law, by the development of new forms and new law out of criminal or quasi criminal procedure and the inquest of neighbour-witnesses has never been described with this truth and clearness. He makes plain a great chapter of legal history which the learners and even the lawyers of today have almost abandoned in despair. The text of the chief writs is given after the lectures ...'

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    Table of Contents:

    Lecture I; Lecture II; Lecture III; Lecture IV; Lecture V; Lecture VI; Lecture VII; Select writs.

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