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The law's two bodies : some evidential problems in English legal history / J.H. Baker.

Title
The law's two bodies : some evidential problems in English legal history / J.H. Baker.
Author
Baker, John H. (John Hamilton)
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description
xix, 197 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Informal sources of English law lie undiscovered because they are not included in Statutes, law reports or in current legal teaching. The author argues that these informal sources are too important to go unnoticed by legal historians and commentators.
Series Statement
Clarendon law lectures
Uniform Title
  • University press scholarship online.
  • Clarendon law lectures.
Subject
  • Common law > History > Sources
  • Fictions (Law) > Great Britain > History
  • Fictions (Law)
Genre/Form
  • History
  • Sources
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Lecture 1. Case-Law and Statute-Law -- Lecture 2. Legal Fictions -- Lecture 3. Common Usage and Common Learning.
ISBN
0199245185 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001021288
OCLC
  • 45957981
  • SCSB-9929457
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library