Publisher's Synopsis
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Yale Law School Libraryocm32663347From the last London edition including all the notes and additional references in the former editions, and in the improved ms. copy of Edward Hilliard, Esq., also, an enlargement of the text, &c. by the addition of various criticisms, distinctions, &c. &Philadelphia: John S. Littell, 1840-1841. 2 v.; 24 cm.
