The Genius of the Common Law

Name: The Genius of the Common Law
Author: Sir Frederick Pollock

The Genius of the Common Law, by Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

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Figures— 10 of 99

Francis Bacon · Frederic William Maitland · Sir Edward Coke · William Blackstone · Edward I · Charles I · Lord Mansfield · Mr Phelps · Rudolf von Jhering · Samuel Johnson

Ideas— 10 of 46

Common Law · Canon Law · Equity · Formalism · Law of Nature · Trespass · Act for the Abolition of Fines and Recoveries · Actions on the Case · Anarchism · Archaic proof

Places— 10 of 41

England · Massachusetts · British India · Court of Chancery · House of Lords · Scotland · Court of Exchequer · New York · Norwich · Pennsylvania

Groups— 10 of 37

Parliament · Germans · Jews · Puritans · Suitors · The Church · American States · Anarchists · Angles, Saxons and Norsemen · Anglo-Saxon kings

Events— 10 of 11

Norman Conquest · The Restoration · Act of Union · Ashford v. Thornton · Civil War · Fining of the Norwich Chandlers · French Revolution · Ordeals · The Counter-Reformation · The Reforms of 1832

Objects— 10 of 13

Year Books · Abridgments · Anglo-Saxon Dooms · Companies Act · Domesday Book · Fortitude · Judicature Acts · Law Reports · Magna Carta · News from Nowhere

120 citations · 67 themes · 431 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.

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