Studies in history and jurisprudence
By: by James Bryce.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1901
Place of publication: Oxford
Subjects: Constitutional history -- United States; Political science; Marriage law; Constitutional history -- South Africa -- Transvaal; Constitutional history -- Iceland; Constitutional history -- Australia; Jurisprudence; Law -- History; Imperialism; Natural law; Rome -- Politics and government; Great Britain -- Politics and government
Table of contents: title: V. 1. The Roman empire and the British empire in India. The extension of Roman and English law throughout the world. Flexible and rigid constitutions. The action of contripetal and centrifugal forces on political constitutions. Primitive Iceland. The Constitution of the United States as seen in the past. Two South African constitutions. The constitution of the commonwealth of Australia; title: v. 2. Obedience. The nature of sovereignty. The law of nature. The methods of legal science. The relations of law and religion. Methods of law-making in Rome and in England. The history of legal development at Rome and in England. Marriage and divorce in Roman and in English law. Inaugural lecture. Valedictory lecture. Index.