The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, Vol. 4 of 7: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, Vol. 4 of 7: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV With such helps it must be my fault if these volumes shall not be found a contribution of some value to English literature. It will be seen that I have desisted from the practice of taking a retrospective view of the State of the Law at the end of each reign, - little now depending for such matters on the per sonal character of the Sovereign - but I have continued ...
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Excerpt from The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, Vol. 4 of 7: From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of King George IV With such helps it must be my fault if these volumes shall not be found a contribution of some value to English literature. It will be seen that I have desisted from the practice of taking a retrospective view of the State of the Law at the end of each reign, - little now depending for such matters on the per sonal character of the Sovereign - but I have continued most anxiously to mark all the important changes in the administra tion of justice, whether by legislative enactment or by forensic decision, - in the ambitious hope that my book may be studied as a history of our jurisprudence from the foundation of the monarchy to our own times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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