The institutional framework of the Common Law and how that framework influenced the structure of the substantive law. Discusses the early courts; the emergence of the dominant ‘common law’ courts, King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the competing/complementary Equity jurisdiction in the Chancery; the writ system and development of the pleading forms and the methods of proof used in trials. Considers tenures, the principal Real Actions for the recovery of land at Common Law, and selected writs. There will be a 2-1/2 hr. closed-book handwritten exam.