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Excerpt from A History of English Law, Vol. 7
Book III. (1066-1485) - the medieval common law: Introduction. Part I. Sources and General Development: char. I. The Intellectual, Political, and Legal Ideas of the Middle Ages. Char. II. The Norman Conquest to Magna Carta. Char. III. The Reign of Henry III. Char. IV. The Reign of Edward I. Char. V. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries. (vol. III.) Part II. The Rules of Law char. I. The Land Law: I The Real Actions; 2 Free Tenure, Unfree Tenure, and Chattels Real; 3 The Free T enures and Their Incidents; 4 The Power of Alienation; 5 Seisin: §6 Estates; §7 Incorporeal Things; §8 Inheritance; §9 Curtsey and Dower; IO Unfree Tenure; n The Term of Years; I2 The Modes and Forms of Conveyance; §r3 Special Customs. Char. II. Crime and Tort I Self-help; 2 Treason; 3 Benefit of Clergy, and Sanctuary and Abjuration; 4 Principal and Accessory; 5 Offences Against the Person; 6 Possession and Ownership of Chattels; §7 Wrongs to Property; §8 The Principles of Liability; §9 Lines of Future Development. Char. III. Contract and quasi-contract. Char. IV. Status: I The King; §2 The Incorporate Person; 3 The Villeins: §4 The Infant; 5 The Married Woman. Char. V. Succession to Chattels: r The Last Will; 2 Restrictions on Testation and Intestate Succession; 3 The Representa tion of the Deceased. Char. VI. Procedure and Pleading: I The Criminal Law; 2 The Civil Law.
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