Ebook: A Natural History of the Common Law

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.;Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chronological List of Publications; I: Making Law: Lawyers and Laymen; II: Changing Law: Fictions and Forms; III: Management, Custom, and Law; IV: History and Lost Assumptions; Notes.