In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Jus

It adopts an approach which explains the historical development of the common law institutions and procedures whilst also setting them in perspective through a

Written for the beginning student as well as the experienced scholar, this introductory analysis of the origin and early development or the English common law p

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.