Professor Neil Jones
- Professor of English Legal History
Contact
Location
- Mallory Court B15, Magdalene College
About
Fellow and College Lecturer in Law, Magdalene College
Co-Director of the Centre for English Legal History
Research
Research centres: Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC); Centre for English Legal History (CELH)
Publications
Selected publications
'Equitatis Causa': 'Equity' in the Practice of the Court of Chancery, 1515-1615
Chapter
1 February 2026
In Essays on the History of Equity (eds David Foster, Charles Mitchell), Bloomsbury
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England before the Wills Act 1837
Chapter
1 February 2025
In Comparative Succession Law, vol IV, Administration of Estates (eds K.G.C. Reid, J.P. Schmidt, R. Zimmermann), Oxford University Press
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Early Seventeenth Century Common Injunctions
Chapter
1 December 2024
In Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson (eds Joe Sampson, Stelios Tofaris), Bloomsbury
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Sixteenth-Century England: A View From the Trusts Cases
Journal article
1 June 2023
Selden Society lecture
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English Legal History in Dobbs v Jackson
Journal article
1 January 2023
[2023] International Family Law Journal 6
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David Harbecke, Modernisation Through Process: The Rise of the Court of Chancery in the European Perspective, Frankfurt am Main: Vitorio Klostermann 2018
Journal article
1 November 2020
[2020] Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 1034
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Jonathan Rose, Maintenance in Medieval England
Journal article
1 November 2020
41 Journal of Legal History (2020) 343-346
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The English Court of Chancery
Chapter
1 January 2020
In Central Courts in Early Modern Europe and the Americas (eds A.M. Godfrey and C.H. van Rhee), Duncker and Humblot
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Jesson v. Wright (1820): Wills, Coal and the Rule in Shelleys' Case
Chapter
1 October 2019
In Landmark Cases in Succession Law (eds Brian Sloan ed.), Hart Publishing
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Henry Sherfield's Reading on Wills (1624) and Trusts in the Form of a Use upon a Use
Chapter
1 May 2019
In English Legal History and its Sources: Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker
Neil Jones, David Ibbetson, Nigel Ramsay (eds)