Customer Review: The law of England underwent major changes under the energetic leadership of the Plantagenet kings. This scholarly work traces and outlines this most fascinating and actually entertaining period in legal history. Before the acts chronicled here, the business of law enforcement in all its... more info
Customer Review: F.W. Maitland is a genius at showing how the present got here out of the dim past. To do so, he takes the reader to an ancient age when the "common law" that today we take for granted was still forming, and where the modern reader can barely recognize--let alone comprehend--the assumptions according... more info