An Introduction To The History Of The Development Of Law PDF Download

Excerpt from An Introduction to the History of the Development of Law This volume is the outgrowth of some lectures delivered several years ago before the Post-Graduate Class of the University of Georgetown, and has been prepared in pursuance of a suggestion then made to the writer. The book is not a history of law, or a history of the development of law, which, in order to be adequate, would require a greatly more extensive treatment, but simply what it purports to be, an introduction to that subject; and it makes no pretensions to originality or novelty. It is believed, however, that it may be of some service, not only to the student of law, but also to the general practitioner and to the man of education and intelligence, who may desire a general idea of the subject, and yet may not have the time or the opportunity to investigate the sources of information. To those engaged in the work of legislation - and every American citizen is more or less engaged in that work - it may serve a useful purpose as showing how many of our efforts in the formulation of statutory law have been anticipated by past ages and nations that have long since gone out of existence. For assistance in the preparation of the volume the writer desires to acknowledge his very great indebtedness to Messrs. Pollock and Maitland's History of English Law, and to Professor Guy Carleton Lee's admirable work on "Historical Jurisprudence." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.