The Table-Talk of John Selden: With a Biographical Preface and Notes / By S.W. Singer.

by John Selden

The Making of the Modern Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition ++++Harvard Law School J.R. Smith, 1856. xciii, 170 port.; 19 cm.

Genres: Politics, Philosophy, Law

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1689

About the author

John Selden was an English jurist, scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath showing true intellectual depth and breadth; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land."

Reviews

[Andrew Barbin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The version I have is an early edition reproduced leather bound for the legal classics library. With Pliny's writings and a handful of others written in letters to friends or essays conversational in tone, one can sense both the differences of the epochs of history and the basic commonality we share with all people of all times. The props change and humanity as a whole appears to evolve in fits and starts occilating between rise and fall but with a slight advantage to the general upward march of humanity. For breadth and for its humanity, it is a fovorite well worth the read.