278. Bar, Carl Ludwig von
A History of Continental Criminal Law.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916
lvi, 561 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 99-32341. ISBN 1-58477-013-9. Cloth. $90.

279. Cawston, George and A.H. Keane
The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296-1858).
London: Edward Arnold, 1896
Frontispiece. xi, 329 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001041393. ISBN 1-58477-196-8. Cloth. $75.

280. Dawson, John P.
A History of Lay Judges.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960
viii, [2], 310 pp. Reprinted 1999
LCCN 98-50812. ISBN 1-886363-69-2. Cloth. $75.

281. Esmein, A[dhemar].
A History of Continental Criminal Procedure with Special Reference to France. Translated by John Simpson; with an editorial preface by William E. Mikell and introductions by Norman M. Trenholme and by William Renwick Riddell.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1913
xlv, 640 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-045906. ISBN 1-58477-042-2. Cloth. $100.

282. Evans, E.P.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1906
x, 384pp. Reprinted 1998
LCCN 98-12801. ISBN 1-886363-52-8. Cloth. $75.
See item 45 in section Animal Law for more information on this title.

283. Forsyth, William
The History of Lawyers. Ancient and Modern.
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1875
Illustrated. xvii, 404 pp. Reprinted 1996
LCCN 95-51103. ISBN 1-886363-14-5. Cloth. $60.

284. Forsyth, William
History of Trial by Jury.
[Second edition].
Jersey City: Frederick D. Linn, [1875]
x, 388 pp. Reprinted 1994
LCCN 96-14505. ISBN 0-9630106-8-9. Cloth. $65.

285. Gierke, Otto
Political Theories of the Middle Ages.
Translated with an introduction by Frederick William Maitland.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1913
lxxx, 197 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001041398. ISBN 1-58477-186-0. Cloth. $70.

286. Hankey, The Right Hon. Lord
Politics, Trials and Errors.
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1950]
xiv, 150 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-228-X. Cloth. $65.
See item 238 in section Legal Biography & Personages for more information on this title.

287. Hearn, William Edward
The Aryan Household.
Its Structure and its Development.
An Introduction to Comparative Jurisprudence.
London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891
viii, 494 pp. Reprinted 2002
ISBN 1-58477-124-0. Cloth. $100.

288. Holdsworth, William S.
Essays in Law and History.
Edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946
xv, 302 pp. Reprinted 1995
LCCN 99-047234. ISBN 1-886363-13-7. Cloth. $75.

289. Kitchin, S.B.
A History of Divorce.
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1912
xvi, 293 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001041400. ISBN 1-58477-190-9. Cloth. $75.

290. [Macaulay, Thomas Babington]
A Penal Code Prepared by the Indian Law Commissioners, and published by
Command of the Governor General of India in Council.
London: Pelham Richardson, Cornhill, 1838
viii, 138 pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 99-16486. ISBN 1-58477-018-X. Cloth. $65.

291. [Maitland, Frederick, et al.]
A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons & Movements in Continental
Legal History. By Various European Authors.
With an introduction by Albert Kocourek.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1912
liii, 754pp. Reprinted 1998
LCCN 98-11159. ISBN 1-886363-47-1. Cloth. $110.

292. Neilson, George
Trial by Combat.
Glasgow: William Hodge & Co., 1890
xiv, 348 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-059101. ISBN 1-58477-075-9. Cloth. $75.

293. Schechter, Frank I.
The Historical Foundations of the Law Relating to TradeMarks.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1925
xxviii, 211 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-41673. ISBN 1-58477-035-X. Cloth. $65.

294. Shang, Yang
The Book of Lord Shang. A Classic of the Chinese School of Law.
Translated from the Chinese with Introduction and Notes by Dr. J.J.L. Duyvendak.
London: Arthur Probsthain, 1928
xiv, 346 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002024318. ISBN 1-58477-241-7
Cloth. $80.
* Reprint of Volume XVII in Probsthain’s Oriental Series. With a Chinese index and an index of names and references. The Book of Lord Shang was probably compiled sometime between 359 and 338 BCE. Along with the Han Fei-Tzu, it is one of the two principal sources of Legalism, a school of Chinese political thought. Legalism asserts that human behavior must be controlled through written law rather than through ritual, custom or ethics because people are innately selfish and ignorant. The law is not effective when it is based on goodness or virtue; it is effective when it compels obedience. This is essential to preserve the stability of the State. Roscoe Pound recommended this book for the study of old Chinese law in Outlines of Lectures on Jurisprudence (5th ed.) 235.

295. Stokes, Anthony
A View of the Constitution of the British Colonies, in North-America and the West-Indies, at the Time the Civil War Broke Out on the Continent of America.
London: Printed for the author and sold by B. White, 1783
555, (1) pp. Reprinted 2002
LCCN 2001050735. ISBN 1-58477-224-7. Cloth. $90.

296. [Trials]. [Witchcraft Trials]
Curious Cases and Amusing Actions at Law Including Some Trials of Witches
in the Seventeenth Century.
Toronto: The Carswell Co., Limited, 1916
vii, 234 pp. Reprinted 2000
LCCN 99-032361. ISBN 1-58477-012-0. Cloth. $65.

297. Vinogradoff, Paul, editor
Essays in Legal History Read Before the International Congress of Historical Studies Held in London in 1913.
London: Oxford University Press, 1913
viii, 396 pp. Reprint available 2003
ISBN 1-58477-351-0
Cloth $85.
* Complete text of papers read at the International Congress, in their native tongue, edited by Paul Vinogradoff, who presided over the section. The collection of 20 includes essays given by Gierke, Hazeltine, and Huebner, as well as “The Numismatic Illustrations of the History of Roman Law” by E. C. Clark, “The Transformation of Equity” by Sir Frederick Pollock, “The Influence of Coke on the Development of English Law” by W.S. Holdsworth, and “La Maxime Princeps Legibus Solutus est dans l’ancien Droit public francais” by E. Esmein.

298. Walton, Clifford Stevens
The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish America. Including Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philippine Islands, and the Spanish Civil Code in force, annotated and with references to the Civil Codes of Mexico, Central and South America, With A History of all the Spanish Codes, and Summary of Canonical Laws, of the Principal Fueros, Ordenamientos, Councils and Ordenanzas of Spain from the Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century, including the Spanish, Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican Autonomical Constitutions, and a History of the Laws of the Indies
Washington, D.C.: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1900
xix, 672 pp. Reprinted 2003
LCCN 2002025945. ISBN 1-58477-245-X
Cloth. $110.
* Spain has an extraordinarily rich legal history, one that reflects Roman, Gothic, Arabic, Papal, Holy Roman and French influences. It is equally notable for its innovative and progressive nature. For example, it was the first nation to produce a published commercial code. Aragon possessed and exercised a writ of habeas corpus during the medieval era. Medieval Spain also witnessed the invention of democratic principles that would form the basis of the Republic of Iceland, the Magna Charta and the American Declaration of Independence. And as the first great colonial power, Spain exported its legal ideas to the New World. This had a profound influence on the history of most Latin American nations and the Philippines. The study of Spanish and Spanish-influenced law has much to offer the student of legal history. Walton facilitates this study through lucid historical introductions, notes and translations of rare source materials.

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