Sources and literature of English law / by W.S. Holdsworth ; with a foreword by the Rt. Honourable Lord Justice Atkin.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1925.

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Law -- Great Britain -- Sources.

Legal research -- Great Britain.

I. The conquest to Edward I

II. The statutes

III. The yearbooks, the reports, and the abridgements

IV. The register of writs, textbooks, and books of authority

V. Developments outside the common law - Star chamber and Chancery

VI. Developments outside the common law - the law merchant and the sphere of the civilian's practice.

This book is based on six lectures which I delivered at the request of the Council of Legal Education in Michaelmas Term 1924. It is intended for students who are beginning to read law. From the very beginning of his course the student is brought into contact with some of the original sources of the law - with statutes, reported cases, and books of authority, from all periods in the history of the law. - Preface.

Online book is a reproduction of original from Yale Law School Library.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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