Description: Hale, Matthew. The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England. Stafford: J. Nutt, 1713. [x], 264, [28], 176 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-33739. ISBN 1-58477-024-4. Cloth. $85. * The highly respected first history of the common law ever written is reprinted here in its first edition. A series of chronological essays that were not intended for publication comprise a sketch of the history of legal doctrine. "...it does give us a clear statement of the history of some of the important external features of the common law...Sketch as it is his history is living history because its author had a clear view of its whole course." Holdsworth, Sources and Literature of English Law 151-152. Hale [1609-1676] was a Judge of the Common Pleas, well-known for his History of the Pleas of the Crown. Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law 252-253.

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