english legal authors before blackstoneby h. a. hollond
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Editorial Committee of the Cambridge Law Journal
English Legal Authors before Blackstone by H. A. HollondReview by: H. PotterThe Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1948), p. 149Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Editorial Committee of the Cambridge LawJournalStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4503769 .
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No. 1: 1948] Book Revierws 149
whatever other kind of right was intended to be created. Planning does include '
planned law '. Part I of this work is an expression of our last sentence. The
learned author has sought to express the Common Law of support in twelve Guiding Principles with two excursuses on minerals under
ex-copyhold lands and nature and incidents of the right of support. The Guiding Principles are set out with support from copious extracts from judgments and the facts of cases are very well extracted. We like this part of the book and think that anyone interested will find it helpful.
Part II does not attempt the same logical coherence. It deals with the matter statute by statute. This is probably the only way and certainly the most convenient. We commend this book to all interested in the land law as well as those having a more
specialised interest. H. Potter.
No. 1: 1948] Book Revierws 149
whatever other kind of right was intended to be created. Planning does include '
planned law '. Part I of this work is an expression of our last sentence. The
learned author has sought to express the Common Law of support in twelve Guiding Principles with two excursuses on minerals under
ex-copyhold lands and nature and incidents of the right of support. The Guiding Principles are set out with support from copious extracts from judgments and the facts of cases are very well extracted. We like this part of the book and think that anyone interested will find it helpful.
Part II does not attempt the same logical coherence. It deals with the matter statute by statute. This is probably the only way and certainly the most convenient. We commend this book to all interested in the land law as well as those having a more
specialised interest. H. Potter.
No. 1: 1948] Book Revierws 149
whatever other kind of right was intended to be created. Planning does include '
planned law '. Part I of this work is an expression of our last sentence. The
learned author has sought to express the Common Law of support in twelve Guiding Principles with two excursuses on minerals under
ex-copyhold lands and nature and incidents of the right of support. The Guiding Principles are set out with support from copious extracts from judgments and the facts of cases are very well extracted. We like this part of the book and think that anyone interested will find it helpful.
Part II does not attempt the same logical coherence. It deals with the matter statute by statute. This is probably the only way and certainly the most convenient. We commend this book to all interested in the land law as well as those having a more
specialised interest. H. Potter.
English Legal Authors before Blackstone. By H. A. Hollond, Rouse Ball Professor in the University of Cambridge, Reader
to the Council of Legal Education [London : Stevens & Sons, Ltd. 1947. 42 pp. 3s.].
This pamphlet reprinted from the Cambridge Law Journal should come into the hands of all law students and having come stay there. Its character is expressed by the learned author in his opening words: ( The following summary is based on notes compiled, like the common-place books of old, for personal use'. It contains those items of information about authors and books which any student should be glad to have and which seems to the writer to be rather lacking in the equipment of the average law student. We would express a hope that the learned author will pursue his method and bring it down to later times. When a book like Williams on Real Property is scarcely known by name to the modern student we think that Blackstone is too early a stopping place and we must follow the example of Oliver Twist. As the learned author remarks, selection is always a problem, and there are bound to be variations; we would like to have seen Prynne's Animadversions, Noys Maxims, to mention two, but this is not criticism and in this sort of work it is not possible or desirable to cover every man's taste. The point is that the student does not know enough about authors upon whom reliance is placed, even if he cannot be expected to read them all. He should be encouraged to know and we think this is the way to do it. H. Potter.
English Legal Authors before Blackstone. By H. A. Hollond, Rouse Ball Professor in the University of Cambridge, Reader
to the Council of Legal Education [London : Stevens & Sons, Ltd. 1947. 42 pp. 3s.].
This pamphlet reprinted from the Cambridge Law Journal should come into the hands of all law students and having come stay there. Its character is expressed by the learned author in his opening words: ( The following summary is based on notes compiled, like the common-place books of old, for personal use'. It contains those items of information about authors and books which any student should be glad to have and which seems to the writer to be rather lacking in the equipment of the average law student. We would express a hope that the learned author will pursue his method and bring it down to later times. When a book like Williams on Real Property is scarcely known by name to the modern student we think that Blackstone is too early a stopping place and we must follow the example of Oliver Twist. As the learned author remarks, selection is always a problem, and there are bound to be variations; we would like to have seen Prynne's Animadversions, Noys Maxims, to mention two, but this is not criticism and in this sort of work it is not possible or desirable to cover every man's taste. The point is that the student does not know enough about authors upon whom reliance is placed, even if he cannot be expected to read them all. He should be encouraged to know and we think this is the way to do it. H. Potter.
English Legal Authors before Blackstone. By H. A. Hollond, Rouse Ball Professor in the University of Cambridge, Reader
to the Council of Legal Education [London : Stevens & Sons, Ltd. 1947. 42 pp. 3s.].
This pamphlet reprinted from the Cambridge Law Journal should come into the hands of all law students and having come stay there. Its character is expressed by the learned author in his opening words: ( The following summary is based on notes compiled, like the common-place books of old, for personal use'. It contains those items of information about authors and books which any student should be glad to have and which seems to the writer to be rather lacking in the equipment of the average law student. We would express a hope that the learned author will pursue his method and bring it down to later times. When a book like Williams on Real Property is scarcely known by name to the modern student we think that Blackstone is too early a stopping place and we must follow the example of Oliver Twist. As the learned author remarks, selection is always a problem, and there are bound to be variations; we would like to have seen Prynne's Animadversions, Noys Maxims, to mention two, but this is not criticism and in this sort of work it is not possible or desirable to cover every man's taste. The point is that the student does not know enough about authors upon whom reliance is placed, even if he cannot be expected to read them all. He should be encouraged to know and we think this is the way to do it. H. Potter.
The English Legal System. Second edition. By G, R. Y. Rad- cliffe and Geoffrey Cross [London: Butterworth & Co. 1946. 432 pp. 21s.].
Radcliffe and Cross is established as the best students' book on the history of the courts, and it is good to see that a second edition
The English Legal System. Second edition. By G, R. Y. Rad- cliffe and Geoffrey Cross [London: Butterworth & Co. 1946. 432 pp. 21s.].
Radcliffe and Cross is established as the best students' book on the history of the courts, and it is good to see that a second edition
The English Legal System. Second edition. By G, R. Y. Rad- cliffe and Geoffrey Cross [London: Butterworth & Co. 1946. 432 pp. 21s.].
Radcliffe and Cross is established as the best students' book on the history of the courts, and it is good to see that a second edition
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