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Paperback | 23 January 1989 | Edition Number 2

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180 Pages

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This book provides a challenging interpretation of the emergence of the common law in Anglo-Norman England, against the background of the general development of legal institutions in Europe. In a detailed discussion of the emergence of the central courts and the common law they administered, the author traces the rise of the writ system and the growth of the jury system in twelfth-century England. Professor van Caenegem attempts to explain why English law is so different from that on the Continent and why this divergence began in the twelfth century, arguing that chance and chronological accident played the major part and led to the paradox of a feudal law of continental origin becoming one of the most typical manifestations of English life and thought. First published in 1973, The Birth of the English Common Law has come to enjoy classical status, and in a preface Professor van Caenegem discusses some recent developments in the study of English law under the Norman and earliest Angevin kings.

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'This tour de force is a piece of mature scholarship based on exceptional first-hand knowledge of archives and literature dealing with early Common Law.' Social Science Quarterly 'The study reflects a thorough command of the primary sources and the vast secondary literature, and it is written with rare lucidity and wit.' New York Literary Journal

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Non-Fiction Law Jurisprudence & General Issues Systems of Law Common Law Legal Skills & Practice History Regional & National History European History British & Irish History Earliest Times to Present Day Early History from 500 to 1500

Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Constitutional & Administrative Law

Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
English courts from the Conqueror to Glanvill
Royal writs and writ procedure
The jury in the royal courts
English law and the Continent
notes to the text
index of persons, places and subjects
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