History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I [Two Volume Set]

Pollock, Sir Frederick ; Frederick William Maitland ; [Justice Abe Fortas' copy]

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1952

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688 ; 691 pages; Former owner's name on ffep of Volume 1 -- "ABE FORTAS" along with Fortas' blindstamp at bottom left corner, otherwise contents unmarked and secure in original blue polished buckram with gilt lettering at spines. Foredges have speckles of foxing. xxxviii, (2), 688; xv, (1), 691 pp. From the collection of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland s legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and with them the development of individual rights as these were gradually carved out from the authority of the Crown and the Church. PROVENANCE: From the estate of Abraham Fortas (1910 1982), American lawyer and jurist who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Fortas graduated from Rhodes College and Yale Law School and became a law professor at Yale and then an advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Fortas worked at the Department of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to delegations that helped set up the United Nations in 1945. In 1948, Fortas represented Lyndon B. Johnson in the dispute over the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination, and he formed close ties with Johnson. Nominated by Johnson to the Supreme Court in 1965, Fortas was confirmed by the Senate, and maintained a close working relationship with the president. As a justice, Fortas wrote several landmark opinions in cases such as "In re Gault" and "Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District." In 1968, Johnson tried to elevate Fortas to the position of Chief Justice of the United States, but that nomination faced a filibuster and was withdrawn. Fortas later resigned from the Court after a controversy involving his acceptance of $20,000 from financier Louis Wolfson while Wolfson was being investigated for insider trading. The Justice Department investigated Fortas at the behest of President Richard Nixon, whose Attorney General John N. Mitchell pressured Fortas into resigning. Following his resignation, Fortas returned to private practice, occasionally appearing before the justices with whom he had served.Although it has been more than a century since its initial publication, Pollock and Maitland s work is still considered a foundational reference for scholars of medieval English law. Volume one begins with an examination of Anglo-Saxon law, goes on to consider the changes in law introduced by the Normans, then moves to the twelfth-century "Age of Glanvill," with the first great compilation of English laws and customs, followed by the thirteenth-century "Age of Bracton," author of another major treatise on the same subject.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I [Two Volume Set]
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1952
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: Second Edition; Later Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Law and Legal History
  • Signed and Association Copies
  • Americana and American History