The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm13879696Includes index.London; New York: E. Arnold, 1896. xi, 329 p.: coats of arms; 21 cm.

CONTENTS: Charters and Chartered Corporations -- The Hanseatic League -- Regulated and Joint Stock Companies The Merchants of the Staple The Fraternity (Brotherhood) of St. Thomas B Becket, Later Called the Company of the Merchant Adventurers of England The Russia Company The Eastland Company The Turkey (Levant) Company The East India Company (1600-1858) The Hudson Bay Company The Virginia and New England Companies and Provincial Charters Summary Account of the Guinea (Royal African) and Minor Chartered Companies