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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The English legal system</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Walker R. J.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Butterworths</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1985</dateIssued>
    <edition>6th ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>li, 709p. : 25cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Contents: The historical sources of english law: Common law -- Equity -- Other historical sources -- Administrative reforms of the nineteenth century -- The legal and literary sources of english law: Legislation -- Law reports and precedents -- Text books -- The administration of justice: The royal prerogative and judicial review -- The courts -- The judiciary -- Juries -- The legal profession -- Legal aid and advice -- Civil procedure: Preliminary considerations in an action in the queen's bench division -- Commencing an action by writ -- Proceedings after acknowledgement of service -- Pleading -- Procedure from the close of pleadings to the trial -- Originating summonses, motions and petitions -- Costs and the enforcement of judgements -- Procedure in county courts -- Civil appeals -- Criminal procedure: Compelling appearance and determining mode of trial -- Trial of an indictable offence -- Appeal following trial on indictment -- Summary procedure -- Appeal following summary trial -- Outline of the law of evidence: What is evidence? -- Relevance and admissibility -- The onus of proof -- The means of proof -- Means of proof which are generally inadmissible -- Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">R. J. Walker</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <classification authority="lcc">KD7100.W3</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0406677603</identifier>
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