Chapters one and two examine the nature and history of law, along with the processes it uses and the principles it has evolved. In chapters three and four jurisprudential thought is examined, and legislation, administrative law, and nonjudicial tribunals are discussed. Chapter five looks at legal reasoning, the growth of law, and judicial supremacy, while chapter six examines federalism and the legal system. Chapters seven through eleven discuss jurisdiction, conflict of laws, torts, civil procedure, and criminal procedure. Chapter 12 provides an introduction to contracts, while chapters 13 through 22 deal with manifestation of assent, the reality of consent, contractual consideration, discharge of a contract, incapacity, the Statute of Frauds, illegality, remedies, third-party beneficiaries and assignments, and agency. Table of edited cases and index.