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Holdsworth was born in Beckenham, Kent on May 7, 1871. He was the son of a well-known London solicitor, Charles Joseph Holdsworth and his wife Ellen Caroline (née Searle).
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Vol. I.) BOOK I. The Judicial System :I ntroduction. Chap. I. Origins. Chap. II. The Decline of theO ldL ocal Courts and the Rise of theN ew County Courts. Chap. III. The System of Common Law Jurisdiction. Chap. IV. The House of Lords. Chap. V. The Chancery. Chap. VI. The Council. Chap. VII. Courts of aS pecial Jurisdiction. Chap. VIII. The Reconstruction of the Judicial System. (V ol. II.) BOOK II. (449-1066) A nglo-S axon Antiquities :I ntroduction. Part I. Sources and General Development. Part II. The Rules of Law: iT heR anks of the People; 2C riminal Law; 3T heL aw of Property; 4F amily Law; 5S elf-help ;6 Procedure. BOOK III. (1066-1485) The Medieval Common Law: I ntroduction. Part I. Sources and General Development: Chap. I. The I ntellectual, Political, and Legal I deas of theM iddle A ges. Chap. II. The Norman Conquest toM agna Carta. Chap. III. The Reign of Henry III. Chap. IV. The Reign of Edward I. Chap. V. The Fourteenth andF ifteenth Centuries. (V ol. III.) Part II. The Rules of Law: Chap. I. The Land Law :i The Real A ctions; 2F reeT enure, Unfree Tenure, and Chattels Real; 3T he Free Tenures and Their I ncidents; 4T heP ower of A lienation; 5S eisin :6 Estates; 7I ncorporeal Things; 8I nheritance; 9C urtsey and Dower ;10 Unfree Tenure; ii The Term of Years; 12 The Modes andF orms of Conveyance; 13 Special Customs. Chap. II. Crime and Tort: IS elf-help; 2T reason; 3B enefit of Clergy, andS anctuary and A bjuration; 4P rincipal and A ccessory; 5O ffences A gainst the Person; 6P ossession andO wnership of Chattels ;7 Wrongs toP roperty; 8T heP rinciples of Liability; 9L ines ofF uture Development. Chap. III. Contract and Qua si-C ontract. Chap. IV. Status: iT he King; 2T he Incorporate Person; 3T he Villeins; 4T he I nfant; 5T heM arried Woman. Chap. V. Succession to Chattels :i The Last Will; 2R estrictions on Testation and Intestate Succession (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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Book I of this History, I have related the history of the Judicial System down to the passing of the Judicature A ct in 1875. In the eight succeeding volumes, which contain Books II-IV, I have described the sources and influences which shaped the development of English law down to 1700, and I have related both the history of English public law during the same period, and also the history of the principal doctrines of English private law, in some cases to 1700 and in others down to the nineteenth century. These three succeeding volumes begin Book V, the last Book of this History, in which I propose to relate the history of English law from 1700 to 1875. They begin Part I of this Book, and they relate the history of public law, and of the sources and influences which shaped the development of English law, during the eighteenth century. If I continue to have sufficient health and leisure, I hope in a succeeding volume to complete Part I of this Book, and in Part II to complete the History in two more volumes by giving some accoimt of the history of those doctrines of English law with which I have not fully dealt in the preceding volumes. It may be thought that I have dealt with the legal history of the eighteenth century at too great a length. But there are several reasons why I have found it necessary to fill three bulky volumes. In the first place, this is the first complete legal history of the eighteenth century which has ever been written. In the second place, to make that history intelligible it has been necessary to deal somewhat more fully than in the preceding periods with the political background. (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series ut
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The Historical Roots of English Land Law. Originally published: London: Oxford University Press, 1927. xxiv, 339 pp. One of the most distinguished historians of English common law, Holdsworth produced this manual to provide students of real property with a concise history of the field. This background was necessary, he argued, because contemporary land law was hard to comprehend apart from its history. "Holdsworth has cheerfully carried through the task of giving us an elementary survey of one part of the vast subject in the mastery of which he stands alone. Most writers of manuals have to popularize the results of the labour of others; Professor Holdsworth need pillage few storehouses but his own." --Law Quarterly Review 44: (1928) 105. William S. Holdsworth 1871-1944 was a professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Cambridge from 1903-1966 and became the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford in 1922. He is well-known for his monumental A History of English Law (1903-1966) and other works, such as Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1929) and Some Makers of English Law (1938).
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Holdsworth proves that historians should study the novels of Charles Dickens as source material about the workings of English law and legal institutions. He shows how Bleak House highlights the procedures of the Court of Chancery, and Pickwick Papers illuminates the procedure of the common law. The addresses contained in this book were delivered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series, 1927, before the Law School of Yale University. "The distinguished English historian, Professor Holdsworth, has contrived even during his moments of recreation to render us his debtors. No two books outside the bounds of technical law are more worth reading for law students than Pickwick Papers and Bleak House. Even a trained trial lawyer however, is puzzled by some of the legal points brought up by Dickens, because they have fortunately passed forever out of the realm of living law. Professor Holdsworth has performed a valuable service to lawyers and laymen alike in explaining these obscurities. And he has done much more than this. He has increased our admiration for the genius of Dickens by proving his great merit as a legal historian.": Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Harvard Law Review 42:286-8. CONTENTS: I. The Courts and the Dwellings of the Lawyers II. The Lawyers, Lawyers' Clerks, and Other Satellites of the Law III. Bleak House and the Procedure of the Court of Chancery IV. Pickwick and the Procedure of the Common Law Index AUTHOR BIO: Distinguished Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University, Sir William Searle Holdsworth (1871-1944) is widely known for his seminal 17-volume History of English Law as well as others including The Historians of Anglo-American Law, An Historical Introduction to the Land Law, and The Law of Succession.
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The second volume contains ninety more pages, and the third volume one hundred and sixty-three more pages than they contained in the first edition. During the thirteen years which have elapsed since the publication of the first edition, my knowledge of different parts of the subject has naturally increased, and I have become conscious of the inadequacy of my treatment of parts of the subject. It is for this reason that I- have added introductions to Books II. and III., that I have added a new first chapter to the First Part of Book III., and that I have rearranged Chapters II. and IV. of that part. It is partly for the same reason that I have made very considerable alterations in all the chapters of Part II. of Book III. which is contained in Volume III. But these additions and alterations are due more particularly to the following reasons :F irstly, a good deal of very important new matter has been published since 1909, which has necessitated the rewriting of many parts of Volumes II. and III. Thus, to mention only the most important books, it has been necessary to take account of Maitland sF orms of Action ;the work of Mr. Bolland, Sir Paul Vinogradoff, and Mr. Turner on theY ear Books ;the important collection of Legal Essays which were read at the legal history section of the Historical Congress of 1913 ;the work done in the series ofO xford Studies inS ocial and Legal History edited byS ir Paul Vinogradoff; Sir Paul Vinogradoffs valuable little book on Roman Law in Mediaeval Europe ;M r. Woodbine swork on Bracton, and on some of the legal tracts of Edward I. sreign ;D (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to
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Preface to these two volumes must begin with a plea of confession and avoidance. I have to confess that volume seven is not the last volume. In deals only with the history of the law of property real property, chattels real, and chattels personal. I have found it necessary to put the history of the law of obligations, contractual and delictual, of mercantile law, and of criminal law into an eighth volume; and to leave the history of the law of status, and of evidence, procedure and pleading, to a ninth volume. But, as an explanation of this alteration of my original plan, I must point out that the history of many of the subjects treated of in these volumes is taken down to the nineteenth century, so that their history is finally concluded. The history of the land law, of the action of trover and conversion, of the ownership and possession of chattels, of the doctrine of consideration, of much of the criminal law and the law of tort, and of procedure and pleading, is thus finished. The parts of legal doctrine which are not finished, because their development belongs essentially to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are mercantile and maritime law, some parts of the law of contract and tort, the law of evidence, equity, international law, and ecclesiastical law. These topics I shall hope to deal with if I am able to write the history of these centuries. But, whether or not I am able to accomplish this, I think that I may claim that in these nine volumes there is contained a large instalment of a complete history of English (Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important
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Holdsworth was born in Beckenham, Kent on May 7, 1871. He was the son of a well-known London solicitor, Charles Joseph Holdsworth and his wife Ellen Caroline (née Searle).
Educated at Dulwich College and New College, Oxford, he was a fellow of St. John's College from 1897 to 1922 and vice-president of the college from 1902 to 1903.
In 1924 he delivered the Creighton lectures at the University of London.
He was knighted in 1929 and received the Order of Merit in 1943.
Holdsworth's greatest work is his monumental History of English Law (12 vols. , 1922 - 1938), a work of real scholarship and enormous erudition.
He also wrote Charles Viner and the Abridgments of English Law (1923), The Influence of the Legal Profession on the Growth of the English Constitution (1924), Sources and Literature of English Law (1925), Historical Introduction to the Land Law (1927), The Historians of Anglo-American Law (1927), and Some Makers of English Law (1938).
He served as professor of constitutional law at University College, London (1903 - 1908), All Souls' reader in English law at Oxford (1910 - 1922), and Vinerian professor of English law at Oxford (from 1922 until his death).
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In 1922 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy.
Holdsworth was knighted in 1929 and was appointed as a member of the Order of Merit in 1943.