The Progress of Continental Law in the Nineteenth Century

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Little, Brown, 1918 - 558 trang
 

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Trang xiii - CONTINENTAL LEGAL HISTORY SERIES GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES "ALL history," said the lamented master Maitland, in a memorable epigram, "is but a seamless web; and he who endeavors to tell but a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears the fabric." This seamless web of our own legal history unites us inseparably to the history of Western and Southern Europe. Our main interest must naturally center on deciphering the pattern which lies directly before us, — that of the Anglo-American...
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Trang xi - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

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