The Law Magazine, Or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Vol. 54

Download or read book The Law Magazine, Or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Vol. 54 written by William S. Hein And Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law Magazine, or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Vol. 54: August-November, 1855; Vol. XXIII, New Series Such being the component elements of our Law Merchant, we would next remark that its history may properly be treated as divisible into three several portions, the first of these periods commencing with the Norman Conquest, and extending down to the time of Sir E. Coke, who became Chief J ustice.of the Common Pleas on the 3oth of June, am. 1606, and pre sided in the Queen's Bench from 1613 - 1616; the second of the three periods above referred to extending from the last mentioned epoch down to the appointuient of Lord Mansfield, in the year 1756; and the third reaching down to the present time, from the date last mentioned. During the first of these periods we shall find commerce slowly, and with dificulty. 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.