This course considers special legal areas not included elsewhere in the curriculum. Credit is determined by the instructor. Enrollment may be determined by the instructor. May be repeated for a maximum of four credit hours per course. May be repeated up to 99 times. May be repeated within the same term.

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.