Law in the City Proceedings of the Seventeenth British Legal History Conference 2005 Book

	The City and the common law : the contribution of London to modern English law	1
	Glanvill continued : a reassessment	15
	Consanguinity and the common law : 'idle ingenuities' in Bracton?	24
	The making of English thirteenth-century legislation : some new evidence	42
	Thirteenth-century legislation on mortmain alienations in Flanders and its influence upon France and England	54
	Feodo de Compedibus Vocato le Sewet : the medieval prison 'oeconomy'	72
	The trust beneficiary's interest before R. v. Holland (1648)	95
	Localism v. centralism : tensions in the administration of tax in nineteenth-century England and America	119
	The will theory of contract in the nineteenth century : its influence and its limitations	163
	The 'creation' of the default judgment in nineteenth-century English procedural reforms	181
	Poor law in the city : a comparative analysis of the successful legal resistance to the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 in the cities of Chester and Liverpool	206
	The lord chancellor, the poets and the courtesan : public morality and copyright law in the early nineteenth century	230
	Legal education in England and the German historical school of law in the nineteenth century	249
	Law and India at King's College London	262
	Dragging the law into disrepute	283
	What were the principles of nineteenth-century contract law?	305
	Urban commons : from customary use to community right on Scotland's bleaching greens	319