Law, language, and change : : a diachronicsemantic analysis of consideration in the common law / / by Caroline Laske.
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, interdisciplinar...
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| Superior document: | Legal history library ; Volume 42 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL/NIJHOFF,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Legal history library ;
Volume 42. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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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.