Primitive Law, Past and Present

This collection brings methods and questions from humanities, law and social sciences disciplines to examine different instances of lawmaking. Contributors explore the problematic of past law in...

Explore the fascinating history of money-lending with this detailed study of the usury laws in England and the Money-Lenders Act of 1900. Featuring legal analysis, historical context, and firsthand...

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...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...