A panorama of the world's legal systems
By: by John Henry Wigmore, with five hundred illustrations.
Publisher: West Pub. Co.
Published: 1928
Place of publication: Saint Paul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1206
Subjects: Law -- History; Comparative law
Other titles: World's legal systems.
Notes: "Of this first printing ... nineteen hundred and ninety copies have been numbered and are autographed by the author. This copy is number 357."

"The sixteen principal legal systems, past and present, form the subject--Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Chinese, Hindu, Greek, Roman, Japanese, Mohammedan, Keltic, Slavic, Germanic, maritime, ecclesiastical, Romanesque, Anglican."--Author's note.

"Sources of illustrations; sources of documents quoted in text; general references" at end of each chapter. "Reading-list of works in the English language": v. 1, p. xiv-xv.