Sources of English Legal History: Private Law to 1750

by John Hamilton Baker

Sources of English Legal History fills the need for a source book illustrating the development of English private law to 1750 and promises to be the definitive work in its area. The book makes available much source material and original documentation that has hitherto been unavailable or inaccessible. It may be used as a companion volume to An Introduction to English Legal History and Historical Foundations of the Common Law.

698 pages, Paperback

First published November 3, 1986

About the author

Sir John Hamilton Baker is a Professor on the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Barrister (Inner Temple and Gray's Inn) and an Honorary Bencher (Inner Temple).

He writes on English legal history, especially in the early-modern period: history of the legal profession and the inns of court and manuscript law reports and readings.