A History Of English Law (16-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Sir William Holdsworth
Binding: Hardback
Published: Methuen; Sweet & Maxwell, 1971
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Good - Acceptable. Volumes I through X and Volume XVI present well, with sound bindings and clean text blocks. Volumes XI to XV are ex-library copies with usual markings.
This sixteen-volume set of A History of English Law by Sir William Holdsworth stands as a monumental work in legal history and jurisprudence, presenting a comprehensive narrative of English legal development from its medieval origins to modern doctrines. Holdsworth chronicles the evolution of common law institutions, statutes, and procedural practice with exhaustive scholarship and narrative precision. He argues that law is a living social force shaped by politics, economy, and cultural change, illustrating how courts, judges, and legislation responded to pressures from monarchy, Parliament, and society. The series details landmark cases, doctrinal shifts, and the institutional architecture of courts while tracing the interaction between equity and common law. Holdsworth instructs readers in procedural history, sources of law, and the professionalisation of the legal vocation through meticulous footnoting and archival evidence. Each volume analyses doctrinal development alongside social context, presenting legal doctrine not as abstract rules but as instruments that governed everyday life.
Author: Sir William Holdsworth
Binding: Hardback
Published: Methuen; Sweet & Maxwell, 1971
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
Condition remarks: Good - Acceptable. Volumes I through X and Volume XVI present well, with sound bindings and clean text blocks. Volumes XI to XV are ex-library copies with usual markings.
This sixteen-volume set of A History of English Law by Sir William Holdsworth stands as a monumental work in legal history and jurisprudence, presenting a comprehensive narrative of English legal development from its medieval origins to modern doctrines. Holdsworth chronicles the evolution of common law institutions, statutes, and procedural practice with exhaustive scholarship and narrative precision. He argues that law is a living social force shaped by politics, economy, and cultural change, illustrating how courts, judges, and legislation responded to pressures from monarchy, Parliament, and society. The series details landmark cases, doctrinal shifts, and the institutional architecture of courts while tracing the interaction between equity and common law. Holdsworth instructs readers in procedural history, sources of law, and the professionalisation of the legal vocation through meticulous footnoting and archival evidence. Each volume analyses doctrinal development alongside social context, presenting legal doctrine not as abstract rules but as instruments that governed everyday life.