Law, liberty, and parliament : selected essays on the writings of Sir Edward Coke

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Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Allen D. Boyer
Language: English
Publication Information: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, ©2004
Publication Type (Medium): History
Material: Biography
Type: Book
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XV, 406 pages ; 24 cm

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, Law, liberty, and parliament : selected essays on the writings of Sir Edward Coke is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Publisher: Liberty Fund
Responsable Person: edited and with an introduction by Allen D. Boyer.
Number of Editions: 7 editions
First edition Date: 2004
Last edition Date: 2004
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KD621.C64
ISBN: 086597425X 9780865974258 0865974268 9780865974265
OCLC: 52920273

Main Contents

Introduction to Coke’s ‘Commentary on Littleton’ / Thomas G. Barnes
Writing the law / Richard Helgerson
The 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
The ‘economic liberalism’ of Sir Edward Coke / Barbara Malament
Sir Edward Coke, Ciceronianus: classical rhetoric and the common law tradition / Allen D. Boyer
The common lawyers and the Chancery: 1616 / Sir John Baker
The crown and the courts in England, 1603-1625 / W.J. Jones
The procedure of the House of Commons against patents and monopolies, 1621-1624 / Elizabeth Read Foster
The origins of the petition of right reconsidered / J.A. Guy
Coke’s note-books and the sources of his reports / Sir John Baker.

Law, liberty, and parliament : selected essays on the writings of Sir Edward Coke

Law, liberty, and parliament : selected essays on the writings of Sir Edward Coke