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

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

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

Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as legal professionals. In the middle decades of