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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1905Original Publisher: The Clarendon Press Subjects: Great BritainConstitutional historyHistory / Europe / Great BritainLaw / ConstitutionalPolitical Science / Constitutions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1905Original Publisher: The Clarendon Press Subjects: Great BritainConstitutional historyHistory / Europe / Great BritainLaw / ConstitutionalPolitical Science / Constitutions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Extracts From The Early Laws Of The English. The laws of all nations which have developed steadily and in their own seats, with little or no intermixture of foreign elements, are generally perpetuated by custom and oral tradition. Hence the earliest written laws contain amendments of older unwritten customs, or codifications of those customs when, they are gradually wearing out of popular recollection. Such documents are then generally obscure, requiring for their elucidation a knowledge of the customs they were intended to amend, which is not easily attainable; and where they are clear, they will be found frequently to contain little more than assessments of fines for offences and injuries, with very scanty indications of the process by which the laws are made or the fines exacted. Nor is the case much better where codification is attempted; for the diversity of customs being very great, and the code not intended to supersede but to perpetuate them, the lawgiver is apt to become didactic, and to enunciate principles drawn from religion or morality, rather than legal definitions. The following extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Laws and Institutes may seem a very small residuum, after the winnowing of a very bulky Corpus Juris.' But they will be found to contain nearly every mention that occurs in the Collection of our Laws of such matters as public assemblies, courts of law, taxation, or the Books, History~~General, Select-Charters-And-Other-Illustrations-Of-English-Constitutional-History-From-The-Earliest-Times-To-The-Reign-Of-Edward-The-First~~William-Stubbs, 999999999, Select Charters And Other Illustrations Of English Constitutional History, From The Earliest Times To The Reign Of Edward The Fi, William Stubbs, 1150705809, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

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