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Blackstone’s Statutes on Family <strong>Law</strong> (19th ed 2010)For introductory reading and/or revision:Douglas, An Introduction to Family <strong>Law</strong> (2nd ed 2004)Probert, Cretney’s Family <strong>Law</strong> (7th ed 2009)Standley, Family <strong>Law</strong> (7th ed 2010)Cases and materials (optional):Hale, Pearl, Cooke and Monk, The Family <strong>Law</strong> and Society: Cases and Materials (6th ed 2008)For reference:Bainham, Children: The Modern <strong>Law</strong> (3rd ed 2005)Bridge and Swindells, Adoption: The Modern <strong>Law</strong> (2003)Diduck and Kaganas, Family <strong>Law</strong>, Gender and the State (2nd ed 2006)Fortin, Children's Rights and the Developing <strong>Law</strong> (3rd ed 2009)Eekelaar, Family <strong>Law</strong> and Personal Life (2006)Cretney, Same-Sex Relationships: From ‘Odious Crime’ to ‘Gay Marriage’ (2006)Choudry and Herring (eds), European Human Rights and Family <strong>Law</strong> (2010)PAPER 22. LEGAL HISTORYThe Legal History paper provides a general survey <strong>of</strong> changes in English legal institutions, principles and ideas from1066. The law is rooted in historical sources, such as decided cases and statutes, and it has never stood still; thereforeall lawyers, whether they know it or not, are constantly confronted by legal history.1. Institutions <strong>of</strong> the law; the types and sources <strong>of</strong> English lawThe sources and literature <strong>of</strong> English law: mechanisms <strong>of</strong> law making; record, formularies, reports, treatises;precedent; legal education.The leading institutional and procedural developments in the common law: the rise <strong>of</strong> the common law; the courts<strong>of</strong> common law, their origin, personnel and jurisdiction; writs and the forms <strong>of</strong> action; modes <strong>of</strong> pro<strong>of</strong>; pleading;motions in banc; the review <strong>of</strong> decisions.The conciliar courts, Chancery and Star Chamber; the growth <strong>of</strong> equity and its relation to the common law.The ecclesiastical courts.2. ObligationsForms <strong>of</strong> action: praecipe writs; trespass vi et armis; trespass on the case.Tort: customs <strong>of</strong> the realm; negligence, including an outline <strong>of</strong> developments to 1932.47

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