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PLAN OF THE HISTORY

(VOL. I.) BOOK I. THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM: Introduction. CHAP. I. Origins.
CHAP. II. The Decline of the Old Local Courts and the Rise of the New County
Courts. CHAP. III. The System of Common Law Jurisdiction. CHAP. IV. The House
of Lords. CHAP. V. The Chancery. CHAP. VI. The Council. CHAP. VII. Courts
of a Special Jurisdiction. CHAP. VIII. The Reconstruction of the Judicial System.

(VOL. II.) BOOK II. (449-1066)—Anglo-SaxON ANTIQUITIES: Introduction.
Part I. Sources and General Development. Part II. The Rules of Law: § 1 The
Ranks of the People; § 2 Criminal Law; § 3 The Law of Property; § 4 Family Law;
§5 Self-help; § 6 Procedure.

BOOK III. (1066-1485)—THE MEDIEVAL COMMON LAW: Introduction. Part
I. Sources and General Development: CHAP. I. The Intellectual, Political, and
Legal Ideas of the Middle Ages. CHAP. II. The Norman Conquest to Magna Carta.
CHAP. III. The Reign of Henry III. CHAP. IV. The Reign of Edward I. Chap. V.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. (VOL. III.) Part II. The Rules of Law:
CHAP. I. The Land Law: § 1 The Real Actions; § 2 Free Tenure, Unfree Tenure,
and Chattels Real; § 3 The Free Tenures and Their Incidents; § 4 The Power of
Alienation; §5 Seisin: § 6 Estates; § 7 Incorporeal Things; § 8 Inheritance; § 9
Curtsey and Dower; § 10 Unfree Tenure; § II The Term of Years; § 12 The Modes
and Forms of Conveyance; § 13 Special Customs. CHAP. II. Crime and Tort:
§ 1 Self-help; § 2 Treason; § 3 Benefit of Clergy, and Sanctuary and Abjuration;
§ 4 Principal and Accessory; § 5 Offences Against the Person; § 6 Possession and
Ownership of Chattels; § 7 Wrongs to Property; § 8 The Principles of Liability;
§ 9 Lines of Future Development. CHAP. III. Contract and Quasi-Contract. CHAP.
IV. Status: §1 The King; §2 The Incorporate Person; §3 The Villeins; § 4 The
Infant; § 5 The Married Woman. CHAP. V. Succession to Chattels : § 1 The Last
Will; § 2 Restrictions on Testation and Intestate Succession; § 3 The Representa-
tion of the Deceased. CHAP. VI. Procedure and Pleading: § 1 The Criminal Law;

§ 2 The Civil Law.

(VOL. IV.) BOOK IV. (1485-1700)—THE COMMON LAW AND ITS RIVALS: Intro-
duction. Part I. Sources and General Development: CHAP. I. The Sixteenth
Century at Home and Abroad. CHAP. II. English Law in the Sixteenth and Early
Seventeenth Centuries: The Enacted Law. (Vol. V.) Chap. III. English Law in
the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: Developments Outside the Sphere
of the Common Law-International, Maritime, and Commercial Law. CHAP. IV.
English Law in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries: Developments Out-
side the Sphere of the Common Law-Law Administered by the Star Chamber and
the Chancery. CHAP. V. English Law in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth
Centuries: The Development of the Common Law. (VOL. VI.) CHAP. VI. The
Public Law of the Seventeenth Century. CHAP. VII. The Latter Half of the Seven-
teenth Century: The Enacted Law. CHAP. VIII. The Latter Half of the Seven-
teenth Century: The Professional Development of the Law.

(VOL. VII.) Part II. The Rules of Law. CHAP. I. The Land Law: § 1 The Action
of Ejectment; § 2 Seisin Possession and Ownership; § 3 Contingent Remainders;
§ 4 Executory Interests; § 5 Powers of Appointment; §6 The Rules Against Per-
petuities; § 7 Landlord and Tenant; § 8 Copyholds; § 9 Incorporeal Things; § 10
Conveyancing; § II The Interpretation of Conveyances. CHAP. II. Chattels
Personal: § The Action of Trover and Conversion; § 2 The Ownership and
Possession of Chattels; § 3 Choses in Action. CHAP. III. Contract and Quasi-
Contract: § The Doctrine of Consideration; § 2 The Invalidity, the Enforcement,
and the Discharge of Contract; § 3 Quasi-Contract. CHAP. IV. The Law Mer-
chant. I.-Commercial Law: SI Usury and the Usury Laws; § 2 Negotiable
Instruments; §3 Banking; § 4 Commercial Societies; § 5 Agency; §6 Bankruptcy.
II.-Maritime Law. III.-Insurance. CHAP. V. Crime and Tort. Lines of De-
velopment. § 1 Constructive Treason and Other Cognate Offences; § 2 Defama-
tion; §3 Conspiracy, Malicious Prosecution, and Maintenance; § 4 Legal Doctrines
Resulting from Laws Against Religious Nonconformity; § 5 Lines of Future
Development; § 6 The Principles of Liability. CHAP. VI. Status: § 1 The King
and Remedies Against the Crown: § 2 The Incorporate Person; § 3 British Sub-
jects and Aliens. CHAP. VII. Evidence, Procedure, and Pleading: § 1 Evidence;
§ 2 Common Law Procedure; § 3 Equity Procedure.

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