A Guide to Students' Law Books and to Both Branches of the Legal Profession (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. Constitutional Law is so largely history, and English history is so largely-constitutional law, that it would not be very easy to determine the precise scope of this subject if it were not for the fact that examiners in constitutional law appear to always pick their questions from a certain group of books, and never, or scarcely ever, go into matters beyond their range. Sir William Anson's work comes first in Anson's Consti alphabetical order, and also perhaps first in oual popularity and value. The " Law and Custom of the Constitution," as it is called, forms a medium-sized octavo book of well under 400 pages. The accuracy and comprehensiveness of the work it is unnecessary to praise; the sWlo ia as nfifl.rlv likfi " Anson on Contracts" closely printed pages. No doubt it contains more printed words, but the utility or even the readableness of a book can never be measured by the thousand words--so much depends on the arrangement of the matter, and, in some degree, on the presence or absence of references and notes. Taking it on the whole, Dicey is not more difficult than the firstmentioned work, and if recentness of publication be regarded, it has an additional advantage in its favour. Ridge's con-A new book on Constitutional Law, by Law. E. W. Eidges, has recently appeared, which enables the student to obtain a completer view of the whole field than is obtainable from any other book. indermaur's Messrs. Indermaur and Thwaites are the Constitutional authors of a "Guide to Constitutional Law," Law. _' which is one of half a dozen books which they have written expressly for the Bar final. The present one is a very small and convenient book of questions and answers, with references to other works. Thomas's The epitome of leadi...