Change in the position of the Serjeants-formal appointments to 340-355 340-341 Distinguished legal families Literary lawyers 344-345 Strength of the Bench in the Tudor period 346-348 Routine of the courts seldom affected by unusual events-some Or by the political and religious changes Change in the seventeenth century owing to the constitutional Change from the Y.BB to the modern reports Characteristics of these reports Table of the reports of this period How far there is continuity between the Y.BB and the reports 384-385 Pulton's De Pace March on slander A book on the law of pleading the Doctrina Placitandi Books on the theory of conveyancing-Shepherd's Books upon constitutional law and legal history Attention paid to legal history in first part of the seventeenth VOL. V.-b His intellectual characteristics The character of his works on legal history The Condition of the Common Law The common law as compared with its rivals Contract Commercial law The law of persons Executors and administrators Development of the law of pleading and evidence Danger to the supremacy of the common law Danger removed mainly by work and career of Coke II. Edward Coke, and the Relation of the Common Law to its rivals Why only the First was published in his life-time Why his works were accepted as an infallible guide to the law 471-472- I. The opinion given by the judges in 1591 as to imprisonments by order (1) The version given by the Lansdowne MS. Ixviii. 89. (2) The version given by Anderson's Reports 496-497 497-499 |