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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A
Sketch of English Legal History CHAPTER I Early English Law,
600-1066 A.d. Legal History. When we speak of a body of law, we use
a metaphor so apt that it is hardly a metaphor. We picture to
ourselves a being that lives and grows, that preserves its identity
while every atom of which it is composed is subject to a ceaseless
process of change, decay, and renewal. At any given moment of
time?for example, in the present year?it may, indeed, seem to us
that our legislators have, and freely exercise, an almost boundless
power of doing what they will with the laws under which we live;
and yet we know that, do what they may, their work will become an
organic part of an already existing system. Continuity of English
Law. Already, if we lookback at the ages which are the most famous
in the history of English legislation?the age of Bentham and the
radical reform, the age which appropriated the gains that had been
won but not secured under the rule of Cromwell, the age of Henry
VIII., the age of Edward I. ("our English Justinian ")?it must seem
to us that, for all their activity, they changed, and could change,
but little in the great body of law which they had inherited from
their predecessors. Hardly a rule remains unaltered, and yet the
body of law that now lives among us is the same body that
Blackstone described in the eighteenth century, Coke in the
seventeenth, Littleton in the fifteenth, Bracton in the thirteenth,
Glanvill in the twelfth. This continuity, this identity, is very
real to us if we know that for the last seven hundred years all the
judgments of the courts at Westminster have been recorded, and that
for the most part they can still be read.' Were the world large
enough to contain such a book, we might publish not merely a
biography,but a journal or diary, of E...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A
Sketch of English Legal History CHAPTER I Early English Law,
600-1066 A.d. Legal History. When we speak of a body of law, we use
a metaphor so apt that it is hardly a metaphor. We picture to
ourselves a being that lives and grows, that preserves its identity
while every atom of which it is composed is subject to a ceaseless
process of change, decay, and renewal. At any given moment of
time?for example, in the present year?it may, indeed, seem to us
that our legislators have, and freely exercise, an almost boundless
power of doing what they will with the laws under which we live;
and yet we know that, do what they may, their work will become an
organic part of an already existing system. Continuity of English
Law. Already, if we lookback at the ages which are the most famous
in the history of English legislation?the age of Bentham and the
radical reform, the age which appropriated the gains that had been
won but not secured under the rule of Cromwell, the age of Henry
VIII., the age of Edward I. ("our English Justinian ")?it must seem
to us that, for all their activity, they changed, and could change,
but little in the great body of law which they had inherited from
their predecessors. Hardly a rule remains unaltered, and yet the
body of law that now lives among us is the same body that
Blackstone described in the eighteenth century, Coke in the
seventeenth, Littleton in the fifteenth, Bracton in the thirteenth,
Glanvill in the twelfth. This continuity, this identity, is very
real to us if we know that for the last seven hundred years all the
judgments of the courts at Westminster have been recorded, and that
for the most part they can still be read.' Were the world large
enough to contain such a book, we might publish not merely a
biography,but a journal or diary, of E...
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