Holdsworth, W.S. The Historians of Anglo-American Law. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. 175 pp. Reprinted 1994 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 0-9630106-9-7. Cloth. $50. * In chronological order, beginning with Coke and Selden, Holdsworth surveys the work of the great practitioners of Anglo-American legal history. No one interested in the growth of Anglo-American law can fail to read with pleasure and profit this stimulating treatment of the development of legal history.
It was translated by Hastie in 1888 ; and a revised edition of it appears in the
Essays in Anglo-American Legal History.51 It deals at some length with the Anglo
- Saxon sources, and the Anglo-Norman sources down to the end of the
thirteenth ...
Digby, Kenelm Edward, Assisted by William Montagu Harrison. An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property with Original Authorities. Fifth Edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897. xiv, 448 pp. Reprint available March, 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-495-9. Cloth. $95. * Reprint of the final (and best edition), which incorporates the research of Pollock and Maitland's History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. This valuable history is in two parts. The first is an account of Anglo-Saxon land law, the development of feudal tenure and the history of feudalism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Special attention is given to the legislation of Edward I. The second part examines the history of uses, wills and conveyances. This fascinating account is further enriched with lengthy excerpts from Bracton, Glanville, the Year Books and the statutes (with translations).
Under private law, for example, are placed the class of rights and duties relating
to property over things, or arising from 1 The numerals relate to the various
members of the classification shown below, Table I. 2 For an analysis of the ideas
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An Annotated Bibliography Library of Congress. European Law Division, Jean
Caswell, Ivan Sipkov. Notes. Execution by hanging, folio 44. This miniature is an
example. Coutumes of France Excellent study of customary law and its roots from
the time of the Celts through the sixteenth century. 1882 38 Droit coutumier
français; la condition des personnes, par Henri Beaune . . . Lyon, Briday 1882.
602 p. 1886 39 Droit coutumier français. La condition des biens, par Henri
Beaune .
The Origin and Development of Islamic Law. A committee from The Middle East Institute, led by George Camp Keiser, Chairman of the Board of Governors, enlisted outstanding authorities on Middle East law to contribute chapters on specific topics. Includes an extensive glossary of Islamic legal terms. With a foreword by Robert H. Jackson (Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States). Majid Khadduri [1909-2007] was a Professor of Middle East Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University and Director of Research and Education at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D. C. He was the author of several books in English and Arabic on Middle Eastern affairs, including War and Peace in the Law of Islam.Herbert J. Liebesny [1911-1985] was a member of the Advisory Board of the Middle East Journal and author of The Government of French North Africa and Foreign Legal Systems: A Comparative Analysis.
The normal course of intellectual development in the humanities and the social
sciences is that practice comes first and theory afterwards by a process of
generalization from observed facts: logical thought comes before logic and
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