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THE HISTORY AND ANALYSIS OF THE COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND IBD

THE LAWBOOK EXCHANGE, LTD.
02 / 2014
9781584770244
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Sinopsis

Published anonymously, this highly respected work was the first history of the common law. Originally published: [London]: Printed by J. Nutt, 1713. [iii], 264, [12], [xvi], 171 pp. Reprint of the first edition. Two parts, each with title page and individual pagination: The History of the Common Law of England: Divided into Twelve Chapters, The Analysis of the Law: Being a Scheme, Or Abstract, Of the Several Titles and Partitions of the Law of England, Digested into Method. A series of chronological essays drawn from Hale?s manuscripts, it 'give[s] us a clear statement of the history of some of the important external features of the common law...Sketch as it is his history is living history because its author had a clear view of its whole course' (Holdsworth, Sources and Literature of English Law 151-152).Sir Matthew Hale [1609-1676] was a Judge of the Common Pleas, well-known for his History of the Pleas of the Crown.

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