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Essays and addressesI envy the student of legal history, and especially him who makes the study of legal history a recreation from an arduous practice of his profession, his first perusal of this book. He will find much to wonder at, much to condemn, much to approve, in the practice, past and present, on the Continent. He may find lessons for his own country, what to follow, what to avoid. He will with difficulty conceive of anything which has not been at least touched on before ; for " there is no new thing under the sun. " Even in the old, old Roman law "the people exercised a great influence through the appeal to the people against the decrees of the magistrates. prev next |