Sir William Searle Holdsworth: A History of English Law Volume 12: Book V Part 1 - The Centuries of Settlement and Reform 1701-1875 (III)

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Sir William Searle Holdsworth was professor of constitutional law at University College, London (1903–8). After 1922 he was Vinerian professor of English law at Oxford. Holdsworth's greatest achievement is his History of English Law in 17 Volumes.

Sir William Holdsworth's monumental legal history extends from Anglo-Saxon times to the nineteenth-century Judicature Acts. It was interrupted by his death in 1945, when he had reached Volume XII.

Subsequent volumes have been edited by Professors A. L. Goodhart and H. G. Hanbury, at first from Holdsworth's typescript and later, with more difficulty, from his manuscript notes.

Volume 12 continues Part I of Book V The Centuries of Settlement and Reform covering the period 1701-1875. Volumes X and XI dealt with public and enacted law respectively during this period; the present volume describes the 'development of the legal profession'.