The Forms Of Action At Common Law: A Course Of Lectures
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: tape residue on endpapers. Contains pencil moderate ink underlining.
Few works in legal history carry the intellectual weight and enduring authority of F. W. Maitland's The Forms of Action at Common Law, a masterful course of lectures that illuminates one of the most intricate and consequential chapters in the development of English law. Maitland chronicles the ancient procedural framework that governed civil litigation in England for centuries, presenting the complex system of common law writs — each a rigid, prescribed form of action — with remarkable clarity, tracing how these forms shaped the very substance of legal rights and remedies available to ordinary people. Maitland's genius lay in his ability to bring a historian's precision to bear on legal doctrine, revealing how the fossilised procedural forms of the medieval common law quietly determined the contours of English civil justice long after their original rationale had been forgotten. Edited posthumously by A. H. Chaytor and W. J. Whittaker, this Cambridge University Press edition preserves Maitland's celebrated prose — lucid, authoritative, and occasionally wry — ensuring his insights remain accessible to modern scholars of law and history alike. A foundational text for anyone seeking to understand the organic, often counterintuitive, evolution of the common law tradition, it leaves the reader asking a provocative question: how much of modern legal thought still lives in the shadow of forms long since abolished?
Author: F. W. Maitland
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Politics & law
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Acceptable
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: tape residue on endpapers. Contains pencil moderate ink underlining.
Few works in legal history carry the intellectual weight and enduring authority of F. W. Maitland's The Forms of Action at Common Law, a masterful course of lectures that illuminates one of the most intricate and consequential chapters in the development of English law. Maitland chronicles the ancient procedural framework that governed civil litigation in England for centuries, presenting the complex system of common law writs — each a rigid, prescribed form of action — with remarkable clarity, tracing how these forms shaped the very substance of legal rights and remedies available to ordinary people. Maitland's genius lay in his ability to bring a historian's precision to bear on legal doctrine, revealing how the fossilised procedural forms of the medieval common law quietly determined the contours of English civil justice long after their original rationale had been forgotten. Edited posthumously by A. H. Chaytor and W. J. Whittaker, this Cambridge University Press edition preserves Maitland's celebrated prose — lucid, authoritative, and occasionally wry — ensuring his insights remain accessible to modern scholars of law and history alike. A foundational text for anyone seeking to understand the organic, often counterintuitive, evolution of the common law tradition, it leaves the reader asking a provocative question: how much of modern legal thought still lives in the shadow of forms long since abolished?