A History of English Law, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A History of English Law, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by William Searle Holdsworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of English Law, Vol. 6 This volume concludes Part I of Book IV of this History. The sixth chapter, with which this volume opens, deals with the public law of the seventeenth century, and shows how, as the result of the constitutional conflicts of that century, our modern constitution and constitutional law have emerged. It is necessarily a long chapter, partly because the subject is intimately bound up with the general history of England, and partly because the events of that century have never before been treated from a purely legal point of view. The continuity of English history has given to seventeenth century constitutional history a very permanent influence upon the politics of later centuries, with the result that its history has too often been written from the point of view of those politics, and has reflected the political prepossessions of the writer. But, if we would understand the strength and weakness of the claims made by King and Parliament, we must approach the problem from that legal point of view which was adopted by both the contending parties in the seventeenth century. It is only in this way that we can do justice to these rival claimants to sovereignty. The seventh chapter carries on the history of the enacted law from the point at which it was left in the second chapter of this Book, and describes the modifications and additions made by the legislature between 1660 and 1700. The eighth chapter deals with the professional development of the law. It also is a long chapter. This is partly due to the fact that no history of this period in our legal history has ever been written before; and partly to the fact that in the legal world, as on other sides of our national life, modern conditions then decisively emerged. 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.