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Historical Foundations of the Common Law
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Description for Historical Foundations of the Common Law
Paperback. Presents a look at the earliest framework of the common law and demonstrates the underlying structural changes that result in modern law. By examining legal, social and economic history, this book aims to reconstruct legal developments into the stages through which an entire legal system has evolved. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LAFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 584.
This book is directed at the central difficulty in legal history: one is not reconstructing earlier answers to modern questions, but earlier questions; and they were different in kind. Today we see law as a system of substantive rules which can be explained in textbooks, altered by legislation, and embodied in a restatement or a code. It is somehow separate from society and needs separate adjustment; and there is a simple relationship between legal and other change. If this had always been so, legal and social and economic history would all be easy. They are not. Such a ... Read more
This book is directed at the central difficulty in legal history: one is not reconstructing earlier answers to modern questions, but earlier questions; and they were different in kind. Today we see law as a system of substantive rules which can be explained in textbooks, altered by legislation, and embodied in a restatement or a code. It is somehow separate from society and needs separate adjustment; and there is a simple relationship between legal and other change. If this had always been so, legal and social and economic history would all be easy. They are not. Such a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780406625038
SKU
V9780406625038
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About Milsom
S.F.C. Milsom is Emeritus Professor of Legal History, St John's College, Cambridge
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