Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development o

"The Best Available Introduction to English Legal History" In this work Professor Colby has gathered, annotated and arranged into a sequential history of Englis

Previous edition published as : Sources of English legal history. London : Butterworth, 1986.

A brief history of the principal English institutions and doctrines. Topics examined include law and custom in early Britain, the origins of common law, the jud