A History of English Law Vol. 10 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A History of English Law Vol. 10<br><br>The Parliamentary history of this period the history of the beginnings of the system of Cabinet government the history and effects of the Act of Union with Scotland the legislation as to Ireland the beginnings of colonial constitutional law and the legislation as to India would not be intelligible without a full account of that background. In the third place the growth of the colonies and the Indian Empire the extension of the commerce and industry of Great Britain and the demands of a more complex and a more civilized society necessarily increase the complexity of the law both enacted and unenacted and so make a more lengthy treatment of its history necessary. In the sphere of local government for instance and in the statutes relating to commerce and industry the com plexity caused by these demands is very obvious. Lastly at several points for instance in my treatment of beginnings of bodies of local government law of the royal prerogative of the departments of the executive government of the machinery of legislation of private Acts of Parliament of the legal profession of case law - I have found it necessary to go beyond the eighteenth century and to carry down the history of these topics to the nineteenth century. For this reason I think it will be possible to relate the rest of the history of public law and of the sources and in?uences which shaped the development of the law m a single volume. I have to thank Dr. Hazel the Principal of Jesus College for his help in reading the proofs and for his suggestions and criticisms and my son Mr. R. W. G. Holdsworth Stowell Fellow and Tutor of University College Oxford for similar help. The indices and the lists of cases and statutes have been entrusted to the skilled hands of Mr. E. Potton who prepared the con solidated index and the lists of cases and statutes to the preceding nine volumes.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.