The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, Vol. 4 Of 7: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, Vol. 4 of 7: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV

With such helps it must be my fault if these volumes shall not be found a contribution of some value to English literature.

It will be seen that I have desisted from the practice of taking a retrospective view of the State of the Law at the end of each reign, - little now depending for such matters on the per sonal character of the Sovereign - but I have continued most anxiously to mark all the important changes in the administra tion of justice, whether by legislative enactment or by forensic decision, - in the ambitious hope that my book may be studied as a history of our jurisprudence from the foundation of the monarchy to our own times.

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