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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
Restatement and development of the medieval law
Tenures and estates

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Contract

Commercial law

The law of persons

Executors and administrators

Development of the law of pleading and evidence
Control over local authorities.

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

The conflict between the common law and its rivals

Importance of Coke's career and literary work

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