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In a new edition of these volumes, which were originally

published in 1903, the author has made many important additions. New introductions have been written, and much of the matter relating to Mediaeval Law is fresh. The whole work, which, according to the plan, will be complete in seven volumes, promises to be a very thorough history of the most obscure and complicated of all legal systems. Volumes II. and III. deal with the period 449-1485. They thus embrace both the Anglo-Saxon and the Mediaeval Law. The book is likely to be of value both to the lawyer and the layman: to the lawyer because it contains facts and erudition, and to the layman because it has that quality, so rare in legal works, of being readable.