Designed for those studying law for the first time, this book explores where the English common law came from.

A social history of the class system in the United States from the colonial period through the constitutional era that primarily concerns itself with the issue of slavery. Other legislative areas affected by the social structure of the times covered include laws of debt, land tenure, fair trade, and food supply...Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 809.

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

History of International Law · Foundations and Principles of International Law · Sources of International Law · Law of Treaties

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.

This handbook provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins of public international law. It analyses the modern history of international law from a global perspective, and examines the lives of those who were most responsible for shaping it.

Reproduction of the original: A History of Matrimonial Institutions by George Elliott Howard