The Forms of Action at Common Law

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

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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:0.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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