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The Sources of English Law (as it is sometimes known) is an essay written by the German historian Heinrich Brunner and translated by others. In 1909, it was described as a "valuable survey of the sources and literature of English law". [1] In 1914, Winfield called it a "valuable" guide "to the materials of English law". [2]
Charles Szladits called this book "exhaustive" and "indispensable". [2] Volume 1 was compiled by W Harold Maxwell and published in 1925. Its subtitle is "English Law to 1650". It is "of much utility". [3] Volumes 2 to 5 were compiled by Leslie F Maxwell. Volume 2 was published in 1931. Its title is "Bibliography of English Law, 1651 – 1800 ...
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History is a collection of 76 essays about the history of Anglo-American law. It was published, under the direction of a committee of the Association of American Law Schools , by Little, Brown and Company , in Boston , in three octavo volumes, from 1907 to 1909.
Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England is an encyclopedia of English law edited by Alexander Wood Renton and (captain) Maxwell Alexander Robertson (sometimes called "Max Robertson"). [1] The first edition was published as Encyclopaedia of the Laws of England, Being a New Abridgment , in thirteen volumes (including a supplement edited by A W ...
Legal bibliography is the bibliography of law. The term has been applied to "the kinds and functions of legal materials" and to "lists of law books and related materials". [1] Percy Winfield said that a "perfect legal bibliography" would be "a critical and historical account of every known source of the law of the state with which it assumes to ...
A First Book of English Law is a book originally written by Owen Hood Phillips and subsequently edited by him and Anthony Hugh Hudson. It was published by Sweet and Maxwell. F.R. Crane praised it for its "lucidity, accuracy, brevity and readability" and said that it was "deservedly acclaimed". [1]
English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The judiciary is independent , and legal principles like fairness , equality before the law , and the right to a fair trial are foundational to the system.
The title page of a 1780 edition of Glanvill's Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliæ [1]. The Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae (Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England), often called Glanvill, is the earliest treatise on English law.