Course Content:

• Origins of the Common Law
• The Superior Courts of the Common Law
• The Forms of Action
• Contract - Covenants & Debt; Assumption & Deceit
• Contract
• Later Developments
• Quasi-Contract
• Property in Chattels Personal
• Negligence
• Defamation
• Persons - Status & Liberty
• Marriage & its Consequences
• Pleas of the Crown
• Criminal Procedure
• Substantive Criminal Law

Reading List

Main Text:
J H Baker - An Introduction to English Legal History (Butterworth)