Law, language, and change : a diachronic semantic analysis of Consideration in the common law /

"In this monograph, Caroline Laske traces the advent of consideration in English contract law, by analysing the doctrinal development, in parallel with the corresponding terminological evolution and semantic shifts between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is an innovative, interdisci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Laske, Caroline I. B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2020]
Series:Legal history library ; v. 42.
Subjects:
Consideration (Law) > England > History.
Contracts > England > History.
Law > England > Language > History.
Law > England > Terminology.
Contrepartie > Angleterre > Histoire.
Contrats > Angleterre > Histoire.
Droit > Angleterre > Terminologie.
Droit > Angleterre > Langage > Histoire.
Consideration (Law)
Contracts
Law
Law > Language
England
History
Terminology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Legal concepts and terminology
  • Language, functional linguistics, and corpus linguistics
  • Legal language in England from the 14th to the 17th centuries
  • The origins of the concept of Consideration
  • Corpus Linguistic analysis.

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