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• The lavviers logike exemplifying the præcepts of logike by the practise of the common lawe, by Abraham Fraunce. (At London : Imprinted by William How, for Thomas Gubbin, and T. Newman, 1588), by Abraham Fraunce and Petrus Ramus (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A just vindication of the questioned part of the reading of Edward Bagshaw, Esq; an apprentice of the common law. Had in the Middle Temple Hall the 24th day of February, being Munday, anno Dom. 1639. upon the statute of 25 E.3. called, Statutum pro clero, from all scandalous aspersions whatsoever. With a true narrative of the cause of silencing the reader by the then Archbishop of Canterbury: with the arguments at large of those points in his reading, for which he was questioned at the Council-Board. (London : printed in the year 1660. And are to be sold in Westminster-Hall and Fleetstreet, [1660]), by Edward Bagshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Choice cases in the common-law. (London : printed for C. Adams at the Talbot near S. Dunstans Church, J. Starkey at the Mitre near Temple-Bar, & T. Basset in S. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet, 1661), by H. P. and Edmund Plowden (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Eight reasons categorical: wherein is examined and proved, that it's probable, the law-common will stand. And continue at London & Westminster: humbly tendred to the consideration of all ingenuous men; and for the incouragement of students. By Albertus Warren Gent. (London, : Printed by E. Cotes, for John Place at Furnivals Inne-Gate in Holborn, 1653), by Albertus Warren (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• By the King. A proclamation declaring that the proceedings of His Maiesties ecclesiasticall courts and ministers, are according to the lawes of the realme. ([Imprinted at London : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie: and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1637]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A moderate inspection into the corruption of the pratique part of the common law of England. Humbly offered in a word of love to the lords instrument of Englands honour, and victorious magnanimity, his enemies terrour, and Europ's wonder; Oliver by divine providence Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the emperial territories thereunto belonging; and to the truly pious (his Excellency) Charls Fleetwood, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and to the rest of his Highnesse most Honourable Council. / By Ja. Frese, who wisheth health and increase of honour here, and eternal felicity in the glorious world to come. ([London : s.n., 1656]), by James Freize (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The body of the common law of England as it stood in force before it was altered by statute, or acts of Parliament, or state. Together with an exact collection of such statutes, as have altered, or do otherwise concern the same. Whereunto is also annexed certain tables containing a summary of the whole law, for the help and delight of such students as affect method. By Edm. Wingate of Grayes-Inne Esq; (London : printed for H: Twyford in Vine Court Middle-Temple, and Roger Wingate, at the Golden Hynd in Chancery Lane, 1655), by Edmund Wingate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A perspicuous compendium of several irregularities and abuses in the present practice of the common laws of England· With several queries and proposals thereupon for regulation of laws, without the help of the legislative power, or new law made. By D.W. of the Mtddle-Temple [sic], barrister. (London, : Printed by T. Lock for Hen. Flesher, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the thrre [sic] Cups in Pauls Church-yard, 1656), by D. W. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The history and analysis of the common law of England (Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq., for J. Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple Cloysters, and at his shop in Stafford, 1713), by Matthew Hale, Dorothy Watt Williams, Wendell S. Williams, Charles Bruce Ailesbury, John Walthoe, and John Nutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes of reason, or, The reason of the common law of England by Edmond Wingate ... (London : Printed by R. & W.L. for W. Lee, A. Crook, D. Pakeman, H. Twiford, G. Bedell, T. Dring, J. Place ..., 1658), by Edmund Wingate (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Parallele or conference of the civill law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England. Part 1 (At London : Printed by [Adam Islip for] Thomas Wight, Anno Domini. 1601), by William Fulbeck (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Parallele or conference of the civill law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England. Part 2 (London : Printed by [Adam Islip for] Thomas Wight, 1602), by William Fulbeck (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Common Law Judging: Subjectivity, Impartiality, and the Making of Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Douglas E. Edlin (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Unity of the Common Law: Studies in Hegelian Jurisprudence (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1995), by Alan Brudner (HTML at UC Press)
• The Inheritance of the Common Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #2; London: Stevens and Sons, 1950), by Richard O'Sullivan (PDF in the UK)
• Judicial Activism: Authority, Principle and Policy in the Judicial Method (Hamlyn Lectures, #55; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2004), by M. D. Kirby (PDF in the UK)
• The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Council and courts in Anglo-Norman England (Yale university press, 1926), by George Burton Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law (Little, Brown, 1923), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law (Little Browm, 1946), by Oliver Wendell Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common law (Little, Brown, 1904), by Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The institution of property; a study of the development, substance and arrangement of the system of property in modern Anglo-American law (Longmans, Green and Co.;, 1936), by C. Reinold Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The genius of the common law. (Columbia University Press, 1912), by Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the common law (Marshall Jones Co., 1921), by Roscoe Pound, Plimpton Press, and Marshall Jones Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaelic law, the Berla laws ; or, The ancient Irish Common law (Hodges, Figgis, 1923), by M. J. Macauliffe, Eugene O'Curry, John O'Donovan, Faelad Cenn, and king of Ireland Cormac mac Art (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of English law; or an attempt to trace the rise, progress, and successive changes, of the common law; from the earliest period to the present time (Baldwin and Cradock, 1829), by George Crabb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some lessons from our legal history (Macmillan, 1928), by William Searle Holdsworth and Julius Rosenthal Foundation for General Law (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spirit of the common law (Marshall Jones company, 1931), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über vergleichende sitten- und Rechtsgeschichte. (B.G. Teubner, 1902), by Albrecht Dieterich and Hermann Usener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings on the history and system of the common law (Lawyers Co-operative Pub. Co., 1927), by Roscoe Pound and Theodore F. T. Plucknett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the common law : intended for the use of students and the profession (Stevens & Haynes, 1888), by John Indermaur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the common law : intended for the use of students and the profession (Stevens & Haynes, 1909), by John Indermaur and Charles Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the common law : intended for the use of students and the profession (Stevens and Haynes, 1904), by John Indermaur and Charles Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motions and rules at common law, according to the practice of the Courts of common pleas of Pennsylvania (R. Welsh & co., 1906), by James T. Mitchell and William Delaware Neilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings on the history and system of the common law (The Boston book company, 1913), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of leading cases in the common law. (The Blackstone Publishing Company, 1888), by Walter Shirley Shirley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leading cases made easy. A selection of leading cases in the common law. With notes. (Stevens and sons, 1880), by Walter Shirley Shirley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of leading cases in the common law. (Stevens and Sons, limited, 1904), by Walter Shirley Shirley and Rick Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of leading cases in the common law : with notes. (Stevens, 1908), by Walter Shirley Shirley and Rick Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of leading cases in the common law : with notes (Stevens, 1896), by Walter Shirley Shirley and Rick Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The principles of the law of contracts and torts : with a short outline of the law of evidence ; being Indermaur's Common law re-written and enl. (Sweet & Maxwell, 1922), by John Indermaur and Alured Nathaniel Myddelton Wilshere (page images at HathiTrust)
• A practical abridgment of American common law cases argued and determined in the courts of the several states, and the United States courts, from the earliest period to the present time; alphabetically arranged; with notes and references to the statutes of each state and analogous adjudications. (Treadway & Atwood, 1833), by Jacob D. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sampson's Discourse, and correspondence with various learned jurists, upon the history of the law, with the addition of several essays, tracts, and documents, relating to the subject. (Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826), by William Sampson and Pishey Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaries on the common law : designed as introductory to its study (T. & J.W. Johnson, 1873), by Herbert Broom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the common law : intended for the use of students and the profession (Stevens & Haynes, 1891), by John Indermaur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional law viewed in relation to common law, and exemplified by cases. (W. Maxwell & son; [etc., etc.], 1885), by Herbert Broom and George L. Denman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broom's common law. (W. Maxwell & Son, 1888), by Herbert Broom, Herbert W. Green, and W. F. A. Archibald (page images at HathiTrust)
• An anniversary discourse, delivered before the Historical Society of New York, on Saturday, December 6, 1823; showing the origin, progress, antiquities, curiosities, and nature of the common law. (E. Bliss and E. White, 1824), by William Sampson, Abraham Paul, E. Bliss and E. White (Firm), and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law; its origin, sources, nature, and development, and what the state of New York has done to improve upon it (Banks & Brothers, 1894), by Charles P. Daly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charles Viner and our common law ... (Govt. print. off., 1928), by William A. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports and dissertations, in two parts. Part I. Reports of cases determined in the Supreme court of the state of Vermont, in the years 1789, 1790, and 1791. Part II. Dissertations on the statute adopting the commone law of England, the statute of conveyances, the statute of offsets, and on the negotiability of notes. With an appendix, containing forms of special pleadings in several cases; forms of recognizances; of justice records; and of warrants of commitment (Printed by Anthony Haswell, for the Author, 1793), by Nathaniel Chipman and Vermont. Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• A parallele or conference of the civil law, the canon law, and the common law of this realme of England. Wherein the agreement and disagreement of these three lawes, and the causes and reasons of the said agreement and disagreement are opened and discussed. (Co. of Stationers, 1618), by William Fulbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of laws : or, A general introduction to the common, civil, and canon law, in three parts. I. The common law of England, illustrated in great variety of maxims, &c. : also the use of this law with references to statutes, in all cases. II. Of the civil law intermix'd with the law of nations and its use here in England and a parallell between the civil law and common law. III. The canon law and laws ecclesiastical, containing the authority and rights of the English clergy, of patrons of churches, courts ecclesiastical, trials &c. ... (T. Woodward and J. Peele, 1721), by Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional law viewed in relation to common law, and exemplified by cases (W. Maxwell; [etc., etc.], 1866), by Herbert Broom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law relating to compromises of litigation, disputes and differences, with a chapter on family arrangements and similar transactions, and with an appendix of precedents and forms of agreements of compromise, judgments and orders, and contracts of arrangements. (Sweet & Maxwell ;, 1925), by William Douglas Edwards and F. C. Watmough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vestitura ou saisine, Essai sur la (A.Fontemoing, 1899), by Ernest Champeaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• The arguments of the Honorable William D. Shipman and Frederic R. Coudert ... : before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of the State of New York, in behalf of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, against the adoption of the Civil code ([Press of C. Hamilton], 1881), by William D. Shipman, John R. Strong, Frederic R. Coudert, and Association of the Bar of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harris's criminal law (Sweet and Maxwell, 1926), by Seymour F. Harris and A. M. Wilshere (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law jurisdiction and practice : according to statutes and decisions in the State of Illinois : from the earliest period to 1872 : embracing historical, analytical and synthetical views of the jurisdiction, forms of actions, pleading and practice, exemplifying the law of procedure in the courts of Illinois (E.B. Myers and Company, 1872), by Edward J. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings on the history and system of the common law (The Chipman law Pub. Co., 1921), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the common law of England ... (Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of E. Sayer) for T. Waller, 1739), by Matthew Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law common-placed: containing, the substance and effect of all the common law cases dispersed in the body of the law, collected as well from abridgments as reports, in a perfect new method. Wherein likewise the terms of the law, and the most considerable writs and processes, are concisely treated of, under their proper titles. With an abstract of statutes, relating to the general heads thereof, and exact references throughout. (Printed by E. and R. Nutt and R. Gosling for W. Mears and T. Corbett [etc.], 1726), by Giles Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of common law : comprising the fundamental principles and the points most usually occurring in daily life and practice : for the practitioner, student, and general reader (W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1871., 1871), by Josiah W. Smith and Edward Chase Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• An epitome of leading common law cases, with some short notes thereon, chiefly intended as a guide to Smith's "Leading cases" (Sweet and Maxwell, 1922), by John Indermaur, John William Smith, Edward Tennyson Reed, and Ernest Arthur Jelf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expansion of the common law (Rothman Reprints, 1974), by Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leading cases simplified a collection of the leading cases of the common law (F.H. Thomas, 1882), by John D. Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings on the history and system of the common law (Jacob North, 1904), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• The civil and the common law in the Louisiana purchase ([St. Louis, 1905), by Emlin McClain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our common humanity and the common law (University of Chicago press, 1909), by Emlin McClain (page images at HathiTrust)
• A feudal principle in modern law (Rumford press?, 1914), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law of conduct, drawn up for the Roger Ascham school. ([Press of commercial printing works], 1915), by White Plains Roger Ascham school (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of Sir Frederick Pollock, and other addresses, delivered on the occasion of the dedicatory services of the Cincinnati Law school building, October 17, 1903 ... (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1904), by University of Cincinnati. Law Department and Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of common law for practitioners and students : comprising the fundamental principles, with useful practical rules and decisions (Stevens and Sons, 1905), by Josiah W. Smith and Cuthbert Spurling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the common law : intended for the use of students and the profession (Stevens & Haynes, 1901), by John Indermaur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why the "lawes of Virginia" ([Charlottesville], 1920), by J. M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nociones de derecho comun y militar (F.J. Marxuach, 1897), by Rafael Rosado Brincau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expansion of the common law (Stevens and Sons, 1904), by Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expansion of the common law (Little, Brown, 1904), by Frederick Pollock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presunzioni che accompagnono il sorgere e lo sparire del subbieto di dritto naturale nel Codice civile germanico comparato ... (Presso la Direzione dell'Archivio giuridico, 1902), by Gabriele Faggella (page images at HathiTrust)
• Volksrecht und Gesetzesrecht : vortrag gehalten in der Gehe-Stiftung zu Dresden am 11. Dezember 1897. (Zahn & Jaensch, 1898), by Paul Oertmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of leading cases in the common law : with notes (Stevens, 1913), by Richard Watson and Walter Shirley Shirley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law of England being the 10th ed. of Broom's Commentaries on the common law. (Sweet and Maxwell, 1911), by William Blake Odgers, Herbert Broom, and Walter Blake Odgers (page images at HathiTrust)
• An elementary treatise on the common law, for the use of students (Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha, 1917), by Henry T. Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broom's common law. (W. Maxwell, 1884), by Herbert Broom, Herbert W. Greene, and W. F. A. Archibald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the common law : intended for the use of students and the profession (Stevens & Haynes, 1914), by John Indermaur and Charles Thwaites (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the common law of England ... (Pr. by J. Nutt for J. Walthoe junior, 1713), by Matthew Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the common law of England ... (J. Walthoe and J. Walthoe Junr., 1716), by Matthew Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rubric of the common law : being a short digest of the common law, illustrated throughout by leading cases (Shaw, 1891), by Charles George Walpole and Sydney Hastings (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law of England. (Sweet & Maxwell, limited, 1920), by William Blake Odgers and Walter Blake Odgers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on law and equity as distinguished and enforced in the courts of the United States. ([s.n], 1883), by A. J. Peeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Readings on the history and system of the common law. (Chipman Law Pub. Co., 1913), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• The origin and growth of the common law in England and America : a study of private law, comparing the evolution of the common law and the civil law (Caribbean Publishing Co., 1922), by Peter J. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures, elementary and familiar, on English law (Butterworths, 1861), by James Francillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaries on the common law : designed as introductory to its study (Maxwell, 1869), by Herbert Broom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anderson's digest (Stevens and Sons, 1867), by Charles Henry Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law of South Africa; a treatise based on Voet's commentaries on the Pandects, with references to the leading Roman-Dutch authorities, South African decisions, and statutory enactments in South Africa. (Central News Agency, etc.], 1906), by Manfred Nathan and Johannes Voet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Broom's common law. (Sweet & Maxwell, 1896), by Herbert Broom, H. A. Colefax, and W. F. A. Archibald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaries on the common law : designed as introductory to its study (W. Maxwell, 1880), by Herbert Broom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our common law heritage (University of South Carolina, 1959), by Samuel Lander Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of English law before the time of Edward I (The University Press, 1923), by Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history and analysis of the common law of England (Printed by J. Nutt, assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq., for J. Walthoe, in the Middle-Temple Cloysters, and at his shop in Stafford, 1713), by Matthew Hale, Dorothy Watt Williams, Wendell S. Williams, Charles Bruce Ailesbury, John Walthoe, and John Nutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contest between the civil law of Rome and the common law of England : a lecture delivered at Georgetown College, D.C. (Printed for the University, 1891), by M. F. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analytical digest of the reports of cases decided in the English courts of common law, exchequer, and exchequer chamber, and nisi prius, in the year 1854 in continuation of the annual digest by the late Henry Jeremy. (T. & J.W. Johnson, 1855), by William Tidd Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common law of South Africa : a treatise based on Voet's Commentaries on the Pandects : with references to the leading Roman-Dutch authorities, South African decisions, and statutory enactments in South Africa (Central News Agency, 1913), by Manfred Nathan and Johannes Voet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common-law pleading - still survives as the basis of modern remedial law. (New York Law School, 1956), by A. Reppy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline of a course on the history and system of the common law : (introduction to American law) (s.n., 1919), by Roscoe Pound and Boston (Mass.). Trade union college (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progress of law. An address delivered before the George Washington university, Washington D.C., on February 22, 1910. ([n.p., 1910), by George W. Wickersham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of collisions on land (Sweet & Maxwell, 1925), by R. O. Roberts, Andrew Dewar Gibb, and Kenneth Roberts-Wray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eibeihō no seishin (Ganshōdō Shoten, 1925), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays and excursions in law (Sweet & Maxwell;, 1929), by F. A. A. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reply of Nathaniel C. Moak to Hon. David Dudley Field relative to the code of evidence and codification of common law. ([publisher not identified], 1886), by Nathaniel C. Moak and David Dudley Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Exact book of entries, of the most select judiciall vvrits used in the common-law.: Translated from the originall manuscript, which was collected by the hands of that eminent clerk, Robert Moyle Esq; late one of the prothonotaries of the Court of Common-Bench. A work of much industry, as may appeare by the authors great paines in quoting of book-cases, opinions of judges, number rolls, and many other requisites, for the confirmation of every entry, whereof none have been ever published before. Printed now for the use and benefit of all, but aimed most especially for such as are most conversant in the common-law. By J.H. Gent. With a perfect table in which may be found the principall matters therein contained. (London : Printed for Robert Crofts at the Crown in Chancery-lane, under Sergeants-Inne, 1658), by J. H. and Robert Moyle (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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