<p>A collection of Sir Frederick Pollock&#39;s lectures from the Carpentier Series at Columbia University. William Holdsworth praised the eight lectures as a discussion of &nbsp;&ldquo;...critical studies of aspects and characteristics of the common law which only an accomplished legal historian a master of the modern law and a professor of jurisprudence could have written.&rdquo; William Holdsworth<em> Some Makers of English Law</em> 287. vii 141 pp.</p>