This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to disti

After Edward I became king, Chief Justice Bereford took charge of the legal system and created law in accord with his own sense of justice. Here the most import

This book examines the development of legal professionalism in the early English common law, with specific reference to the 13th-century treatise known as Bract

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

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