The law
Subtitle: the story of lawmakers, and the law we have lived by, from the earliest times to the present day
By: by René A. Wormser.
Contributors: Francis Bacon Library,
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
Subjects: Law -- History.; Law -- Popular works.; Direito (Historia); Droit -- Histoire.; Droit -- Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Genres: Popular works.; Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1 The Jews : Moses ; Jesus; title: Pt. 2 The Greeks : Homer ; Solon ; Lycurgus ; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; title: Pt. 3 The Romans : The Ten Men ; Appius Claudius Caecus and the Gracchi ; Cicero ; Augustus ; Hadrian and Julian ; The Big Five and the Roman Law ; Justinian; title: Pt. 4 The German Barbarians and the Feudal System : The German Law Speakers ; Charlemagne; title: Pt. 5 The Churchmen : St. Augustine ; Canon Law and Aquinas; title: Pt. 6 The Western Europeans : Bartolus ; Luther and Calvin ; Alciati and Cujas ; Five Reformers ; Napoleon ; Marx and Engels; title: Pt. 7 The English : William the Conqueror ; The Law of the Land Emerges ; Edward I ; Elizabethan Rivals: Coke and Bacon ; Hobbes and Locke ; After the Industrial Revolution; title: Pt. 8 The Americans : The Early Colonials ; The Firebrands ; Hamilton and Madison ; John Marshall ; Thomas Jefferson ; Andrew Jackson ; James Kent and State Law ; Abraham Lincoln ; The Liberals of the Age of Laissez Faire ; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ; Franklin D. Roosevelt ; Roscoe Pound and Legal Philosophy; title: Pt. 9 The Internationals : The Merchants ; Gentilis and Grotius ; The Building Period ; The First "Big Three" ; Hitler and the Second "Big Three"; title: The Future.