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A Concise History of the Common Law

l i b e r t y f u n dIndianapolis

a

ConCise History

of the

Common LAw

by Theodore F. t. Plucknett

This book is published by Liberty Fund, inc., a foundation established to encourage study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.

The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as the design motif for our endpapers is the earliest-known written appearance of the word

“freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” it is taken from a clay document written about 2300 b.c. in the sumerian city-state of Lagash.

This 2010 Liberty Fund edition is reproduced from the fifth edition originally published by Little, Brown and Co., 1956

A Concise History of the Common Law, © 1929, renewed 1956, by theodore F. t. Plucknett. reprinted by permission.

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 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Plucknett, Theodore Frank Thomas, 1897–1965.

Concise history of the common law / by Theodore F. t. Plucknett.—5th ed. p. cm.

originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956. 2nd ed. 1936. includes bibliographical references and index.

isbn 978-0-86597-806-5 (hardcover: alk. paper)—isbn 978-0-86597-807-2 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Common law—Great Britain—History. 2. Law—Great Britain—History. i. title. ii. title: Common law.

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