Deals with the Professional Tradition of the historical development of English law as it influences the historians of Anglo-American law.

This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to disti

This first booklength survey of the 800-year evolution of Anglo-American common law contract begins in 12th-century England and extends to contemporary America,

In mid-sixteenth-century England, people were born into authority and responsibility based on their social status. Thus elite children could designate property