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    20th Century · English

    The Genius of the Common Law

    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.

    Chapters
    8
    Variants
    8
    Genre
    Law
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Preface, I.: Our Lady and Her Knightsprose
    2. 02II.: The Giants and the Godsprose
    3. 03III.: Surrebutter Castleprose
    4. 04IV.: Enemies in the Gateprose
    5. 05V.: Rescue and Ransomprose
    6. 06VI.: Alliance and Conquestprose
    7. 07VII.: Perils of the Market-placeprose
    8. 08VIII.: The Perpetual Questprose

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Figures97

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

    Ideas45

    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

    Places42

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

    Groups38

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

    Events

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

    Objects13

    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.