REFERENCES SUGGESTED ON THE HISTORY OF LAW 



BY EMLIN M'CLAIN 



The mass of literature bearing upon the history of the law is so great that it 

 would be useless in a brief note to attempt to catalogue even those works which 

 may properly be regarded as monumental. The following list of reference books 

 includes some of the treatises available in English which may serve as guides to 

 direct the student to the original sources of information. 



A brief account of the ancient codes may be found in Guy Carleton Lee's His- 

 torical Jurisprudence (1900). The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon (about 

 B.C. 2250), referred to in the foregoing paper, has been published, with a transla- 

 tion by Robert Francis Harper (1904). 



The development of early Roman law is outlined in many excellent treatises, 

 with full references to original authorities and elaborate commentaries; among 

 these may properly be mentioned: William C. Morey's Outlines of Roman Law 

 (1884, 1902); James Muirhead's Historical Introduction to the Private Law of 

 Rome (1886) ; Rudolph Sohm's Institutes of Roman Law (trans, by James Craw- 

 ford Ledlie, 1892); Thomas Collett Sandar's Institutes of Justinian (Am. ed. 

 with Introduction by William G. Hammond, 1876). 



The medieval codes, both Roman and Teutonic, are fully catalogued and 

 described in Edward Jenks's Law and Politics in the Middle Ages (1898). 



A detailed account of the early development of the English common law will 

 be found in Pollock and Maitland's History of English Law (2 vols. 1895), and no 

 other reference to the subject is necessary. 



