Common-Law Pleading [1897]

<p class=ql-align-justify>Intended for students the core of this book is a synthesis of<strong> </strong>Joseph Chitty's <em>Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions</em> (1809) Henry John Stephen's <em>Treatise on the Principles of Pleading in Civil Actions</em> (1824) Albert Venn Dicey's <em>Treatise on the Rules for the Selection of the Parties to an Action</em> (1870) and the third book of William Blackstone's <em>Commentaries on the Laws of England</em> (1768). Its historical sections are drawn primarily from Frederick Pollock and F.W. Maitland's <em>The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I </em>(1895) James Bradley Thayer's <em>The Development of Trial by Jury</em> (1896) Melville M. Bigelow's <em>History of Procedure in England</em> (1880) and Oliver Wendell Holmes's <em>The Common Law</em> (1881).</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p>xxvi 494 pp.</p>