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• Niccola Nicolini e Gli Studii Giuridici Nella Prima Metà del Secolo XIX: Scritti e Lettere (in Italian; Naples: R. tipografia F. Giannini e Figli, 1907), by Niccola Nicolini, ed. by Fausto Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, by Henry Sumner Maine (text files at McMaster)

• History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), ed. by June Starr and Jane Fishburne Collier (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Scripta Anecdota Glossatorum (in Latin; 3 original volumes published 1888-1901; 2 volumes of incomplete revised edition published 1913-1914), ed. by Giovanni Battista Palmerio and Augusto Gaudenzi
  • original 3 volumes; page images at HathiTrust: US access only
  • revised edition's 2 volumes; page images at HathiTrust: US access only

• The Catholic Conception of International Law: Francisco de Vitoria, Founder of the Modern Law of Nations; Francisco Suárez, Founder of the Modern Philosophy of Law in General and in Particular of the Law of Nations (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1934), by James Brown Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du Droit des Gens et des Relations Internationales (in French, 18 volumes (some in the second edition); Brussels: Meline, Cans and Co., 1861-1870), by F. Laurent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus (2 volumes in Latin (second with different main title); 1693-1700), ed. by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cultures and Crimes: Policing in Four Nations (c2005), by Norman Dennis and George Erdos (PDF at Civitas)

• Citizens Defending America: From Colonial Times to the Age of Terrorism (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005), by Martin Alan Greenberg (page images at Pitt)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

• The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 (with commentary and supplementary material) (searchable HTML at oldbaileyonline.org)

• Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals (London: Brown, Langham and Co., ca. 1908), by Alfred Marks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), by Joanna Carraway Vitiello
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Public Justice and the Criminal Trial in Late Medieval Italy: Reggio Emilia in the Visconti Age (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), by Joanna Carraway Vitiello
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Murder in America: A History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Roger Lane (PDF at Ohio State)

• Citizens Defending America: From Colonial Times to the Age of Terrorism (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005), by Martin Alan Greenberg (page images at Pitt)

• The Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500-1700, by Richard L. Kagan (frame-dependent HTML at Libro)

• The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches, by Joseph G. Baldwin
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• Graeco-Roman Institutions, From Anti-Evolutionist Points of View: Roman Law, Classical Slavery, Social Conditions (Oxford: Parker and Co., 1890), by Emil Reich (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Honorable Lives: Lawyers, Family, and Politics in Colombia, 1780-1850 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Victor Uribe Uran (searchable page images at Pitt)

• The British Tradition in Canadian Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #21; London: Stevens and Sons, 1969), by Bora Laskin (PDF in the UK)

• Our Legal Heritage: King Aethelbert - King George III, 600 AD-1776 (4th edition, 2002), by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg text)
• Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years, 600-1600 (second edition, 1999), by S. A. Reilly (Gutenberg text)
• The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (second edition), by Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland
  • Volume I: PDF at McMaster
  • Volume II: PDF at McMaster

• Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of France (Washington: GPO, 1931), by George Wilfred Strumberg, ed. by Edwin Borchard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Geschichte der Deutschen Rechtswissenschaft (in German; Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1880-1910), by R. Stintzing and Ernst Landsberg
  • volume 1: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3, part 1 (text): multiple formats at archive.org
  • volumes 2-3: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Judge and Jurist in the Reign of Victoria (Hamlyn Lectures, #11; London: Stevens and Sons, 1959), by C. H. S. Fifoot (PDF in the UK)
• The Rational Strength of English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #3; London: Stevens and Sons, 1951), by F. H. Lawson (PDF in the UK)
• A Sketch of English Legal History (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1915), by Frederic William Maitland and F. C. Montague, ed. by James Fairbanks Colby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primitive Folk-Moots: or, Open-Air Assemblies in Britain (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1880), by George Laurence Gomme (PDF at McMaster)
• The Judges of England: With Sketches of Their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected With the Courts at Westminster (9 volumes, published 1848-1864), by Edward Foss (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Niccola Nicolini e Gli Studii Giuridici Nella Prima Metà del Secolo XIX: Scritti e Lettere (in Italian; Naples: R. tipografia F. Giannini e Figli, 1907), by Niccola Nicolini, ed. by Fausto Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Coleridge's Laws: A Study of Coleridge in Malta (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2010), by Barry Hough and Howard Davis (multiple formats at Google)

• Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by Nandini Chatterjee (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Scott Douglas Gerber (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia, by Maksim Kovalevsky (text files at McMaster)

• The Contribution of English Law to South African Law; and the Rule of Law in South Africa (Hamlyn Lectures, #19; London: Stevens and Sons; South Africa: Juta and Co., 1967), by O. D. Schreiner (PDF in the UK)

• Legal Education in Colonial New York (New York: New York University Law Quarterly Review, 1939), by Paul M. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Foundational Documents of the American Legal System (Chicago: eLangdell Press, 2014), contrib. by United States (multiple formats at cali.org)
• British Statutes in American Law, 1776-1836 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1964), by Elizabeth Gaspar Brown, contrib. by William Wirt Blume and Allan F. Smith (PDF with commentary at Michigan)
• Ye Olden Blue Laws (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Judiciary, by Simeon E. Baldwin (Gutenberg text)

• Rugged Justice: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by David C. Frederick, contrib. by Sandra Day O'Connor (HTML at UC Press)

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