Essays in law and history / by Sir William S. Holdsworth ; edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury.

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Publication details:
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1946.
Record id:
1510
Author:
Holdsworth, William Searle, Sir, 1871-1944, author.
Goodhart, Arthur L. (Arthur Lehman), 1891-1978, editor. 
Hanbury, Harold Greville, 1898-1993, editor. 
Subject:
Law -- History.
Law -- Great Britain.
Contents:
Martial law historically considered
The place of English legal history in the education of English lawyers
Central courts of law
The influence of the legal profession on the growth of the English constitution
Reform of the land law
The formation and breach of contract case law
Equity
The influence of Roman law on English equity
Secret trusts
Maitland reissued
Literature in law books
Unjustifiable enrichment
Terminology and title in ejectment
The relation of English law to international law
A chapter of accidents in the law of libel
Law reporting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Note:
This is a memorial volume of a collection of essays by Sir William S. Holdsworth. The essays have been selected by the editors and published in chronological order.
Phys. description:
xv, 302 pages : portrait ; 23 cm