Table of Contents

1. A historical sketch of liberty and equality; 2. The law of real property; 3. The laws of Wales. The kindred and the blood feud; 4. The criminal liability of the hundred; 5. Mr Herbert Spencer's theory of society; 6. The early history of malice aforethought; 7. The seisin of chattels; 8. The mystery of seisin; 9. The deacon and the Jewess; or, apostasy at common law; 10. The beatitude of seisin; 11. The suitors of the country court; 12. The shallows and silences of real life; 13. Why the history of English law is not written.

Promotional Information

Originally published in 1911, this book forms one of three volumes of the collected papers of legal historian Frederic William Maitland.