What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain recognized, even by such a conservative class as legal officials. — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
We regard an action of Contract as an action to prevent or compensate for a breach of a promise; an action of Tort as… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation, familiar with… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The invention of writs was really the making of the English Common Law; and the credit of this momentous achievement, which took place chiefly… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system? — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
