A Natural History of the Common Law
- ISBN-10
- 0231129947
- ISBN-13
- 9780231129947
- Category
- Common law
- Pages
- 175
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Stroud Francis Charles Milsom
Description
How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? One of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians focuses on the development of English common law--the intellectually coherent system of substantive rules that courts bring to bear on the particular facts of individual cases--from which American law was to grow.
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