Beneficent effects The English much more fair 215-217 The Subject Matter of the Rules of Equity The fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries Cases turning on the defects in the adjective law Faults in the machinery of the law or its working Rastell's two books. 384-385 A book on the law of pleading-the Doctrina Placitandi Conveyancing Precedents-Phayre 388-389 stone and Shepherd's other books on this subject Pulton's De Pace March on slander tionaries The Readings Books on the theory of conveyancing Shepherd's Touch- Books upon constitutional law and legal history Attention paid to legal history in first part of the seventeenth Coke's Career and Character The character of his works on legal history The Condition of the Common Law The common law as compared with its rivals Crime and tort A law of personal property is emerging 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 His career as a judge-1606-1616 428-441 His career as a leader of the Parliamentary Opposition His closing years 444-454 454-455 His place in English history 460-461 461-466 . 462-464 Why only the First was published in his life-time Why his works were accepted as an infallible guide to the law 471-472 But the law laid down in political cases must be separ- |