English legal history and its sources : essays in honour of Sir John Baker / edited by David Ibbetson, Neil Jones, Nigel Ramsay.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

1st edition

198854

Law -- History -- Great Britain.

1. Year Book Men

2. Errores in Camera Scaccarii

3. Law reporting in the seventeenth century

4. The law of contracts as reported in The Times, 1785-1820

5. Reading terminology in the sources for the early common law: seisin, simple and not so simple

6. 'A photograph of English life'?: the trustworthiness of the thirteenth-century crown pleas rolls

7. Law, lawyers and legal records: litigating and practising law in late medieval England

8. The fees they earned: the incomes of William Staunford and other Tudor lawyers

9. The fifteenth-century accounts of the undersheriffs of Middlesex: an unlikely source for legal history

10. Local courts in Eastern Sussex, 1263-1835

11. Visualising legal history: the courts and legal profession in image

12. The engraved facsimile by John Pine (1733) of the 'Canterbury' Magna Carta (1215)

13. The abbess, the empress and the 'Constitutions of Clarendon'

14. The Tractatus de antiquo dominico corone ascribed to Anger of Ripon

15. Another way of doing manuscript catalogues?

16. Common opinion in the fourteenth century: before the common learning, before the Inns of Court

17. Henry Sherfield's reading on wills (1624) and trusts in the form of a use upon a use

18. Civilians in the common law courts, 1500-1700

19. The widow's apparel: paraphernalia and the courts

20. 'The glorious uncertainty of the law': life at the Bar, 1810-1830.

This volume honours the work and writings of Professor Sir John Baker over the past fifty years, presenting a collection of essays by leading scholars on topics relating to the sources of English legal history, the study of which Sir John has so much advanced. The essays range from the twelfth century to the nineteenth, considering courts (central and local), the professions (both common law and civilian), legal doctrine, learning, practice, and language, and the cataloguing of legal manuscripts. The sources addressed include court records, reports of litigation (in print and in manuscript), abridgements, fee books and accounts, conveyances and legal images. The volume advances understanding of the history of the common law and its sources, and by bringing together essays on a range of topics, approaches and periods, underlines the richness of material available for the study of the history of English law and indicates avenues for future research. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781108716345

xxiii, 397 pages : illustrations, portraits (black and white) ; 24 cm