The book deals with the development of English law since its inception associated with the Anglo-Saxon period to the present. It is divided into four parts and each substantive chapter.
The first part deals with the English law, the division of the common law and equity law , noting the influence of canon law and in particular analyzes the sources on which English law is traditionally based (legal custom , precedent , Acts of Parliament and legal books ). The second part analyzes the development of the English Parliament , and it also shows the development of the constitutional law of England and then the United Kingdom.
It deals with the composition and powers of parliament , as well as his own share in the creation of law. It shows how the transformation of the relationship between the monarch and Parliament, and when constituting the traditional form of the relationship between parliament and the government.
The third part of the work deals with some parts of English law such as criminal law , law of torts , commercial law and contract law , social law and labor law or procedural rules (focused on the role of judicial Write a jury). On the one hand they then shows some specific concepts and structures arising in English law , interaction of law common law and equity, and interaction between historical tradition and modernization elements associated with the concept of law reform.
All this is shown in particular cases, the most important or most interesting English precedents. The last section then shows what changes were English law after the Second World War , focusing on constitutional change and the implementation of the reform law.