Studies in History and Jurisprudence, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Studies composed at different times over a long series of years. They treat of diverse topics :yet through many of them there runs a common thread, that of a comparison between the history and law of Rome and the history and law of England. I have handled this comparison from several points of view, even at the risk of some little repetition, applying it in one essay to the growth of the Roman and British Empires (E ssay I), in another to the extension over the world of their respective legal systems (E ssay II), in another to their Constitutions (E ssay III), in others to their legislation (E ssays XIV and XV), in another to an important branch of their private civil law (E ssay XVI). The topic is one profitable to a student of the history of either nation; and it has not been largely treated by any writers known to me; as indeed few of our best known historians touch upon the legal aspects of history. Two Essays (III and IV) embody an effort to examine political constitutions generally from comparatively unfamiliar points of view.
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