Intkoduction.

Lord Acton

in respect of history,

ccxvii

and

is

being successfully

carried out.

The

mere encyclopaedia, it is not a mere collection of cases, but a number of treatises composed by learned lawyers, supported by the decisions of the great result is not a

who have from time

judges

Bench

and

it

is

to

time adorned the English

hoped that when finished the work

furnish a complete statement of the

Laws

of

will

England.

HALSBUEY.