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Imagining the law : Common law and the founations of the American legal system
Publication details: New Delhi Macmillan India Ltd. 2000Description: 416p xiISBN:- 9780060929534
- 340.097300 CAN
Contents:
Contents:
Preface xi--
1: Law and legal history 1--
2: Ancient advocacy: Cicero 15--
3: Justinian heritage27 --
4: Glanville's world 48--
5: Englishmen and Frenchmen 74--
6: Kings, Lords, and lawyers 95--
7: Bracton's courtroom 120--
8: Advent of liberalism 141--
9: Gentrification 164--
10: Deep structure 190--
11: Judicial frontiers 212--
12: Law and power 237--
13: Law and revolution 262--
14: Rise of liberalism 286--
15: Age of Coke 301--
16: From Oliver Cromwell to William Blackstone 323--
17: American lawyers and the common law 352--
Bibliography 380--
Index 400.
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Summary:
Explains the historical background of American law, discussing how English common law developed out of Roman law and demonstrating how it became the basis for the American legal system
Contents:
Preface xi--
1: Law and legal history 1--
2: Ancient advocacy: Cicero 15--
3: Justinian heritage27 --
4: Glanville's world 48--
5: Englishmen and Frenchmen 74--
6: Kings, Lords, and lawyers 95--
7: Bracton's courtroom 120--
8: Advent of liberalism 141--
9: Gentrification 164--
10: Deep structure 190--
11: Judicial frontiers 212--
12: Law and power 237--
13: Law and revolution 262--
14: Rise of liberalism 286--
15: Age of Coke 301--
16: From Oliver Cromwell to William Blackstone 323--
17: American lawyers and the common law 352--
Bibliography 380--
Index 400.
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