| Description |
xv, 406 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to Coke's 'Commentary on Littleton' / Thomas G. Barnes -- Writing the law / Richard Helgerson -- Place of Slade's case in the history of contract / A. W. B. Simpson -- Sir Edward Coke and the interpretation of lawful allegiance in seventeenth-century England / David Martin Jones -- Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634): his theory of 'artificial reason' as a context for modern basic legal theory / John Underwood Lewis -- Further reflections on 'artificial reason' / Charles M. Gray -- Against common right and reason : the College of Physicians v. Dr. Thomas Bonham / Harold J. Cook -- Bonham's case and judicial review / Theodore F.T. Plucknett -- 'Economic liberalism' of Sir Edward Coke / Barbara Malament -- Sir Edward Coke, Ciceronianus : classical rhetoric and the common law tradition / Allen D. Boyer -- Common lawyers and the Chancery : 1616 / Sir John Baker -- Crown and the courts in England, 1603-1625 / W. J. Jones -- Procedure of the House of Commons against patents and monopolies, 1621-1624 / Elizabeth Read Foster -- Origins of the petition of right reconsidered / J. A. Guy -- Coke's note-books and the sources of his reports / Sir John Baker. |
| Subject |
Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634.
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Law -- England -- History.
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| Added Author |
Boyer, Allen D.
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| ISBN |
086597425X (hard : alk. paper) |
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0865974268 (paper : alk. paper) |
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