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. "In this monograph, Caroline Laske traces th…
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 innovat…