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Chapter 1 Introduction: Social Change and the Growth of the Common Law 3

LAW AS THE BOND OF CIVIL SOCIETY 3

GROWTH OF THE WRIT SYSTEM 15

PART ONE THE POLITICAL SCENE 33

Chapter2 Royal Centralization and Absolutism 33

HENRY Ⅱ: SUPREME ADMINISTRATOR OF THE REALM 34

RICHARD THE LIONHEARTED: ABSENT KING 45

JOHN: IRRESPONSIBLE ABSOLUTIST 45

Chapter 3 Royal Prerogative and the Community of the Realm 56

HENRY Ⅲ: DUPE OF ALIEN COUNSELORS 57

EDWARD Ⅰ: “HAMMER OF THE SCOTS” AND RELUCTANT CONSTITUTIONALIST 67

PART TWO THE SOCIAL ORDER 85

Chapter 4 Free Tenures and Their Obligations 85

THE THEORY OF THE BODY POLITIC 86

FEUDALISM: LORD AND VASSAL 91

Chapter 5 Unfree Tenures and Their Obligations 114

THE MARKS OF UNFREE TENURE 116

PATTERNS OF AGRARIAN LIFE 122

SEIGNORIAL COURTS 131

OFFICERS OF MANORIAL ADMINISTRATION 132

PUBLIC DUTIES OF THE VILL 135

PART THREE LEGAL INSTITUTIONS 145

Chapter 6 Courts of Angevin England to 1307 145

THE EVOLUTION OF COURTS 147

Chapter 7 Chancery: Secretariat and Writ-Shop 166

CHANCERY OFFICIALS 177

CHANCERY RECORDS 180

PART FOUR THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF THE COMMON LAW 185

Chapter 8 Sources of English Law in the Middle Ages 185

WHAT THE COMMON LAW IS NOT 186

WHAT THE COMMON LAW IS 188

THE NATURE OF LEGAL CUSTOM 190

MEDIEVAL USE OF JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS 200

ENACTMENTS AND STATUTES 203

FORMS OF ACTION: THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COMMON LAW 209

Chapter 9 Enactments of Edward I 216

REGULATION OF CREDITORS AND DEBTORS 218

REGULATION OF ESTATES IN LAND 227

REGULATION OF PURCHASE AND SALE OF FREE TENURES 234

CONCLUSION: THE MEDIEVAL LEGACY 241

Chapter 10 From Medieval Law to Modern Law 241

THE VITALITY OF THE COMMON LAW 241

THE CONTINUING GROWTH OF COMMON LAW 247

EXPANSION OF THE COMMON LAW 249

THE LEGACY OF THE MIDDLE AGES 251

A Glossary for Laymen 255

Index 259

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