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The Sources of English Law (as it is sometimes known) is an essay written by the German historian Heinrich Brunner and translated by others. In 1909, it was described as a "valuable survey of the sources and literature of English law". [1] In 1914, Winfield called it a "valuable" guide "to the materials of English law". [2]
Ealdred v High Sheriff of Yorkshire (c.1068); Wulfstan v Thomas (1070) [1] [2]; R v Roger de Breteuil; Trial of Penenden Heath (1071) [3] [4] regarded by some commentators as "one of the most important events in the early history of English Law because of the light it sheds on the relationship between Norman Law and English Law" with the trial being a possible indication of Norman respect for ...
Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England is an encyclopedia of English law edited by Alexander Wood Renton and (captain) Maxwell Alexander Robertson (sometimes called "Max Robertson"). [1] The first edition was published as Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, Being a New Abridgment , in thirteen volumes (including a supplement edited by A W ...
English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The judiciary is independent , and legal principles like fairness , equality before the law , and the right to a fair trial are foundational to the system.
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History is a collection of 76 essays about the history of Anglo-American law. It was published, under the direction of a committee of the Association of American Law Schools , by Little, Brown and Company , in Boston , in three octavo volumes, from 1907 to 1909.
The law code recognised the difference between the laws of the Danelaw, the old Kingdom of Mercia, and the lands of the Kingdom of Wessex. [1] It also set out a list of legal proceedings that could only be tried before the king or his officials, the cases of which were known as "royal pleas" or "pleas of the crown"; [ 2 ] they included serious ...
The work is organized into two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of law. [5] The first describes English law, arguing for a robust form of parliamentary supremacy. [5] The second describes the relation between statute and common law, on the one hand; and ecclesiastical law, on the other. [6] Hanson divides the argument ...
In Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1928, repr. 1972), a book version of Holdsworth's Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School, he argued that historians should pay closer attention to the novels of Charles Dickens as source material about the workings of English law and legal institutions; it contains a thoughtful and sensitive analysis of ...