The Anglo-Saxon period -- The Norman period, 1066-1154 -- The early Angevins, 1154-1215 -- The development of parliament and the central courts -- The criminal law in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- The council and the court of star chamber
-- The court of Chancery from its origin to the restoration -- The court of Chancery from the restoration to the nineteenth century -- The common law-fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (I) -- The common law fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (II) -- The criminal courts-fifteenth to nineteenth centuries -- Courts of appeal -- Courts of special jurisdiction -- The superior courts of law and equity, 1825-1875 -- The modern county courts -- The high court -- The modern criminal courts -- The privy council -- Case law and statute law -- The legal profession -- The legal system and the state -- Looking ahead.
Previous editions published : 5th (1971) and 4th (1964).
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