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Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History. Compiled and Edited by a Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. Volume I. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Pp. 847. 1907.)

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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1908

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1 The table of contents is the following:

Part I. Before the Norman Conquest—(1) Prologue to History of English Law, F. W. Maitland; (2) The Development of Teutonic Law, Edward Jenks; (3) English Law before the Norman Conquest, Sir F. Pollock.

Part II. From the Norman Conquest to the Eighteenth Century—(4) The Centralization of Norman Justice under Henry II, Alice Stopford (Mrs. John Richard) Green; (5) Edward I, the English Justinian, Edward Jenks; (6) English Law and Renaissance, Frederic William Maitland; (7) Roman Law Influence in Chancery, Church Courts, Admiralty, and Law Merchant, Thomas Edward Scrutton; (8) The History of the Canon Law in England, William Stubbs; (9) The Development of the Law Merchant, W. S. Holdsworth; (10) A Comparison of the History of Legal Development at Rome and in England, James Bryce.

Part III. The American Colonial Period—(11) English Common Law in the Early American Colonies, Paul Samuel Reinsch; (12) The Extension of English Statutes to the Plantations, St. George Leakin Sioussat; (13) The Influence of Colonial Conditions, as Illustrated in the Connecticut Intestacy Law, Charles McLean Andrews.

Part IV. Expansion and Reform of the Law in the Nineteenth Century—(14) Anticipations under the Commonwealth of Changes in the Law, R. Robinson; (15) Bentham's Influence in the Reforms of the Nineteenth Century, John Forrest Dillon; (16) Progress in the Administration of Justice during the Victorian Period, Charles Synge Christopher, Baron Bowen; (17) The Development of Jurisprudence during the Nineteenth Century, Joseph Henry Beale, Jr.; (18) The Extension of Roman and English Law throughout the World, James Bryce.

Part V. Bench and Bar from Norman Times to the Nineteenth Century—(19) The Five Ages of the Bench and Bar of England, John M. Zane; (20) A Century of English Judicature, Van Vechten Veeder; (21) An American Law Student a Hundred Years Ago, James Kent.

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