English Legal History Materials

I. Initial Orientation

Approaches

II. Before the Common Law: a Discretionary Society

Communal Courts
The Assumption of Neutrality: Battle Abbey; Becket [unavailable]

III. Beginnings of the Common Law and of Property

Origins of the Common Law
The Law in 1188
Rules of Law
The End of the Displinary Jurisdiction
Magna Carta; Elaboration of the Law

IV. The Reign of Edward I: Rationalizing a Legal System
[The Whilton Dispute: I]

The Right to Enter

The Writ of Entry: Lawyers

The Statutes of Edward I: Quia Emptores; De Donis

Lawyers and their Work

V. The Black Death: The Beginnings of a Government of Inherent Authority, 1348-1381
Uses and the Chancellors Court of Conscience

Whilton Dispute

VI. The Reign of Edward I: Common Law Change

Debt litigation

Detinue litigation