Contents - Faculty of Law - University of Cambridge

Whiteman, Income TaxWhiteman, Capital Gains TaxMcCutcheon, Inheritance TaxStatute Books:Butterworths Yellow Tax Handbook (latest ed) orCCH Tax Statutes (latest ed)Note: Students will be provided with extracts from relevant statutes for exam purposes and are not expected to purchasethese statutes.HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION1. Medieval structures of government: kingship, royal administration, parliament, Magna Carta.2. State-building in the 16th and 17th centuries: royal and parliamentary sovereignty, conciliar administration, Welshunion, confessional government, the Glorious Revolution.3. Constitutionalism during the ‘long’ 18th century: ministerial and royal executives, Anglicanism and the state,Scottish and Irish unions, parliamentary reform.READINGSuggested texts:Lyon, Constitutional History of the United Kingdom (2003)Background texts:Warren, The Governance of Norman and Angevin England 1086-1272 (1987)Brown, The Governance of Late Medieval England 1272-1461 (1989)Lockyer, Tudor and Stuart Britain, 1471-1714 (2004)Hill, The Early Parties and Politics in Britain 1688-1832 (1996)Students will be directed to specific secondary materials in conjunction with particular lecture topics. Relevant originalmaterials will be provided.PERSONAL PROPERTY1. The definition and nature of property and of personal property; the range of proprietary interests which can becreated at law and in equity; specific assets distinguished from fungibles and funds; proprietary character ofincorporeal property (choses in action); introduction to the phenomenon of de-physicalisation of property, explainedby reference to money and corporate securities.2. The character of money explained from the perspectives of economic and legal history; economic conceptions ofmoney and their status in private law; concepts of payment, discharge and legal tender.69