Pollock Maitland History English Law Vol1

yforu? 1778 * PHILLIPS ACADEMY ■£"- OLIVERWENDELLHOLMES £> LI B R ARY I # _? _ # a? altiora JE rSfo ^jjper amplicKL # # # # Gift of THE PHIHLIPLAN — THE HISTOEY OF ENGLISH LAW. 3Lontion: C. J. CLAY and SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. AND STEVENS AND SONS, Ltd, ll9 and 120, CHANCERY LANE. ©lasgoto: 263, ARGYLE STREET. ILetpjtg: F. A. BROCKHAUS. Bombag: E. SEYMOUR HALE. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAV BEFORE THE TIME OF EDWARD l„ BY Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, Bart., M.A., LL.D., CORPUS PROFESSOR OF JURISPRUDENCE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER- AT-LA VV. AND FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND, LL.D., DOWNING PROFESSOR OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, OF LINCOLN'S INN, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, SECOND EDITION VOLUME I. CAMBRIDGE: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, [All Rights reserved.] PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. TN this edition the first chapter, by Pro! Maitland, is new. In Book II., c. ii. § 12, on 'Corporations and Churches' (formerly ' Fictitious Persons '), and c. iii. § 8, on ' The Borough,' have been recast. There are no other important alterations: but we have to thank our learned critics, and especially Dr Brunner of Berlin, for various observations by which we have endeavoured to profit. We have thought it convenient to note the paging of the first editi…