Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law (1876)

A collection of essays by four distinguished Harvard professors: "The Anglo-Saxon Courts of Law" by Henry Adams; "The Anglo-Saxon Land-Law" by Henry Cabot Lodge; "The Anglo-Saxon Family Law" by Ernest Young and "The Anglo-Saxon Legal Procedure" by J. Laurence Laughlin. Includes an appendix of select cases in Anglo-Saxon law with parallel translations. In The Historians of Anglo-American Law, Holdsworth included this volume in his survey of significant books by American scholars (112). Reprint of the first edition. Originally published: Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1876.