The Forms of Action at Common Law: A Course of Lectures

by Frederic William Maitland, A.H. Chaytor, W.J. Whittaker

Book Overview

The forms of action are a part of the structure upon which rests the whole common law of England and, though we may have buried them, they still, as Maitland says, rule us from their graves. The following extract is taken from the editors' preface: 'The evasion of the burden of archaic procedure and of such barbaric tests of truth as battle, ordeal and wager of law, by the development of new forms and new law out of criminal or quasi criminal procedure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521091853
• ISBN13: 9780521091855
• Release Date: January 1936
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"