The history of English law: centenary essays on “Pollock.
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From the older school of English legal historians, who treated the English law as a thing by itself, completely isolated from the rest of the world, and who recognized its derivation from the common law of the Germanic races only incidentally — usually by an occa- sional citation from Tacitus, — Pollock and Maitland distinguish themselves by bringing into English legal history the full.
The History of English Law: centenary essays on 'Pollock and Maitland', Oxford, 1996 (1997) Cambridge Law Journal, 217 Published Sep 2009 Christopher W. Brooks, The Admissions Registers of Barnard's Inn 1620-1869, London, 1995 (1997) Cambridge Law Journal, 219.
History: History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, with Sir F.Pollock, originally published in 1895, 2nd edn., Cambridge, 1923; preface by S.F.C.Milsom to the reprint of 2nd edn., Cambridge, 1968.
The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I is a fundamental work, the very source of knowledge on the social and legal evolution of the earlier England, much helpful for understanding the British character and mentality leavened on the Anglo-Saxon love and defense of liberty. A 'must have' for any student of legal history not only in common law countries but in code law countries.
POLLOCK AND MAITLAND'S HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW.1 OUR knowledge of the development of English law in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries has been so enlarged in modern times, by important publications of material and by special investigations, that a comprehensive presentation has come to be not merely a prom-ising task but an urgent need. Reeves's History of the English Law, which in the first.
Pollock and Maitland's classic The History of English Law before the time of Edward I is perhaps unique amongst late Victorian historical works in remaining the fundamental text on its subject a hundred years later. The current volume gathers leading legal historians to celebrate Maitland's achievement, to analyse his methods, to assess his.