A History of the Common Law of Contract: The Rise of the Action of Assumpsit

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Clarendon Press, 1987 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 646 pages
The Common Law is one of the two major and successful legal systems developed in Western Europe and now in force, in one form or another, in America and Great Britain. Perhaps its most typical product is English Contract law, which developed at the close of the 14th century, assumed many of its characteristic doctrines in the 16th and 17th centuries, and evolved into its modern form in the 19th century. This book, which is written primarily from a doctrinal standpoint, takes the story up to the Statute of Frauds in 1677 and constitutes the first part of the history of contract law.
 

Contents

Oxford 1963
xlvii
Introduction
3
Thomas Gardeners Case 1616 1 Rolle Ab 351
5
Covenants
9
Hen VII M f 40 pl 64
13
Hen VI T f 8 pl 8 99
21
Hen VII M f 41 pl 66
24
Chapman 1672 2 Lev 81 579
28
Hen VI f 9 pl 20
349
Anon 1553 Dal 9 32
352
Hen VI H f 13 pl 3 96
397
HAYES J Le Statute of Frauds en droit anglais Paris 1924
405
Clark 1614 2 Bulst 306 Moo K B pl 1136 409
409
Bretts Case 1600 Cro Eliz 755 160 425 437 495
425
Hen VIII P
430
Anon 1581 Godbolt 13
437

3
38
Hen VI H pl 27 f 32
41
INFORMAL COVENANTS
47
Hen VI H f 26 pl 15 92
49
The Writ of Debt
53
Jolly 1660 1 Sid 38 525
63
Hen VI T f 16 pl 7
74
21 pl 1
75
Farmer 1641 March 100 579
79
Clark 1606 Noy 126 Cro Jac 188
88
Hen IV M f 3 pl 12
92
Hen VI H f 2 pl 8 176
95
Hen VI M f 37 pl 12
98
Herne 1661 1 Lev 33 1 Keb 56 65 534
99
Hen IV M f 1 pl 1
101
Hen VIII H
102
Hen VI M f 42 pl 19 46
106
Angel 1665 1 Lev 164 1 Sid 246 1 Keble 878 407
117
Debt on Informal Contracts
136
Rolls 1594 Cro Eliz 425 459
138
Hen VI M f 4 pl 12 255
141
Anon 1509 Keilwey 158b
151
Hen VI P f 30 pl 16 540
165
Hen VI M f 12 pl 23 57 58 59
173
Hen IV T
178
Hen VI M f 15 pl 25 102
184
Hen VI P f 35 pl 30
190
The Emergence of the Action of Assumpsit
199
Hen VI T f 48 pl 5 141 150 217 358
215
157
229
204
241
Hen VI f 22 pl 66
247
The Action for Breach of Promise
248
Hen VI M f 10 pl 25 142 143
254
Anon 1544 Lib Cong MS
273
The Relationship between Assumpsit and the Older
281
Harewood 1587 1 Leon 61
302
110
304
Goddards Case 1583 4 Co Rep 4b 3 Leon 100
304
Abbot of Bury v Bokenham 1536 Dyer 7b 344 356 361 365
344
Blumfields Case 1596 5 Co Rep 86b 593
345
Batkin 1652 Style 330
438
Graves 1619 Hob 265
441
Snelling 1605 1 Rolle Rep 335 3 Bulst 155 581
449
Anon 1582 Godbolt is 302 303
459
Capper 1596 Cro Eliz 543 Noy 61
461
Brocas Case 1587 3 Leon 219 464 576
464
How 1649 Style 158 573
468
Ameers 1610 1 Brownl and Golds 20 72
474
Clarks Case 1588 2 Leon 30
483
Implied Promises and QuasiContract
489
Anon 1586 Godbolt 98 303
492
145
497
Isabels Case 1605 Moo K B 765 589
498
Blantern 1767 2 Wils K B 341 347 112
500
Glennings 1617 1 Rolle 368 597
502
The Promise and Its Validity
506
NICHOLAS B An Introduction to Roman Law Oxford 1962
510
Jackson 1609 2 Brownl and Goulds 311 593
516
Noy W Treatise of the Principall Grounds and Maximes of the Lawes
523
Crawshaw 1682 3 Lev 74
525
185
527
Goochman 1594 Cro Eliz 442 455
533
Smith 1658 2 Sid 127 476
536
Conysbies Case 1639 March N R 17 47
537
Eliot 1613 1 Rolle Ab 731
544
Transmission of Liability on Death 538
558
Hen VIII T f 14 pl 6
559
Fuller 1612 Cro Jac 299 1 Bulst 200
566
Helhouse 1595 Cro Eliz 545 Moo K B 691
571
Pleading and Procedure in the Action for Breach
574
Exelby 1602 Crol Eliz 888 461 464
579
Anon 1588 2 Leon 212 140
584
Hen VIII M f 24 pl 3
593
The Statute of Frauds
599
Delamere 1595 Cro Eliz 458 495
611
Ballet 1699 2 Vern 373 1 Eq Rep 20
616
EPILOGUE
621
INDEX
641
Savill 1609 1 Brownl and Goulds 19
643
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