Glanvill -- Magna Carta -- Thomas Littleton -- John Fortescue -- Richard Hooker -- James VI and I -- Francis Bacon -- Sir Edward Coke -- Michael Dalton -- William Hudson -- John Selden -- John Milton -- The laws and liberties of Massachusetts -- Trial of Charles I -- Matthew Hale
Summary
"In a series of fifteen essays, this book discusses the contributions of the great common-law jurists and singular documents-namely the Magna Carta and the Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts - that have shaped common law; from its origins in twelfth-century England to its arrival in the American colonies."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-271) and index