Excerpt from The Origin and Growth of the Common Law in England and America: A Study of Private Law, Comparing the Evolution of the Common Law and the Civil Law
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This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to disti