The English law of obligations has developed over most of the last millennium without any major discontinuity. Through this period each generation has built on the law of its predecessors, manipulating it so as to avoid its more inconvenient consequences
PROLOGUE: THE PREHISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LAW OF OBLIGATIONS ; I FORM AND SUBSTANCE IN MEDIEVEAL LAW ; 1. Structural Foundations ; 2. Unity and Fragmentation of the Mediaeval Law of Contract ; 3. Trespass, Trespass on the Case, and the Mediaeval Law of Tort