Book contents
- Law and Legal Process
- Law and Legal Process
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The hypostasis of a prophecy’: legal realism and legal history
- 2 Chancery,the justices and the making of new writs in thirteenth-century England
- 3 Copulative complexities: the exception of adultery in medieval dower actions
- 4 Arbitration and the legal profession in late medieval England
- 5 Privileges and their application in the main English central courts in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- 6 Trustslitigation in Chancery after the Statute of Uses: the first fifty years
- 7 The assessment of contractual damages at common law in the late sixteenth century
- 8 The case of Joan Peterson: witchcraft, family conflict, legal invention and constitutional theory
- 9 Criminal informations of the Attorneys-General in the King’s Bench from Egerton to North
- 10 Lawyers,merchants, and the law of contract in the long eighteenth century
- 11 Creditorsand the feme covert
- 12 Legal process as reported in correspondence
- 13 Legal development in Victorian criminal trials
- 14 ‘Cutting the Gordian knot?’ Arbitration and company insolvency in the 1870s
- 15 ‘Forty Years On’: the British Legal History Conference, 1972–2011
- Index
7 - The assessment of contractual damages at common law in the late sixteenth century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
Book contents
- Law and Legal Process
- Law and Legal Process
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 ‘The hypostasis of a prophecy’: legal realism and legal history
- 2 Chancery,the justices and the making of new writs in thirteenth-century England
- 3 Copulative complexities: the exception of adultery in medieval dower actions
- 4 Arbitration and the legal profession in late medieval England
- 5 Privileges and their application in the main English central courts in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
- 6 Trustslitigation in Chancery after the Statute of Uses: the first fifty years
- 7 The assessment of contractual damages at common law in the late sixteenth century
- 8 The case of Joan Peterson: witchcraft, family conflict, legal invention and constitutional theory
- 9 Criminal informations of the Attorneys-General in the King’s Bench from Egerton to North
- 10 Lawyers,merchants, and the law of contract in the long eighteenth century
- 11 Creditorsand the feme covert
- 12 Legal process as reported in correspondence
- 13 Legal development in Victorian criminal trials
- 14 ‘Cutting the Gordian knot?’ Arbitration and company insolvency in the 1870s
- 15 ‘Forty Years On’: the British Legal History Conference, 1972–2011
- Index
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- Law and Legal ProcessSubstantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History, pp. 126 - 147Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013