"Private Law" is a translation of Book III of "The Doctrine of Law and State," providing the detailed outworking in private law of the principles of law developed in Book II, "Principles of Law." In it, the rights of man receive full explanation within the context of higher, God-given legal principles. Thus, for Stahl human rights do not serve as the source of law but as a secondary principle subservient to a higher law. The further outworking of this concept in rights of property, contract, the law of the family, is masterfully laid out. Institutions such as property and marriage are not made the creature of will and contract but are fully explained as given realities which the human will cannot alter. This book constitutes a return to sound principles of private law and an antidote to contemporary emotivism and primacy of the will.

People believe that governments and justice systems give them their rights throughout life, through specific rules, laws, and regulations, which is never true. Your human rights are yours by default, since you are a human being. Authorities may give you privileges, yet rights and privileges are different concepts. In fact, authorities take away your human rights, always, and they do so with your full agreement, in a perfect legal manner! Why? Should authorities not take away your rights, mostly when you break the law? No, since authorities write these laws, while they also create the necessary circumstances for you to break these laws, in a major conflict of interests. Why? …So you eventually wave your human rights, and fall into slavery. In this book we may see how it all happens, and it starts with the laws.

Jenks, Edward. The Constitutional Experiments of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Years 1649-1660. Cambridge: The University Press, 1890. iv, 154 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 00-067823. ISBN 1-58477-141-0. Cloth. $80. * A detailed account of the various changes in governmental administration between the death of Charles I and the Restoration. A member of the Middle Temple, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, Jenks argues that the Commonwealth era was not an aberration, but an important and natural step in the development of English political ideas.

Thorne, Samuel E., Editor. A Discourse Upon the Exposition and Understanding of Statutes. With Sir Thomas Egerton's Additions. Edited From Manuscripts in the Huntington Library. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1942. vii, 194 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-355-3. Hardcover. * Reprint of first edition. Written anonymously at the end of the Year Book period, the Discourse Upon the Exposicion and Understandinge of Statutes is the earliest English treatise on the subject. Thorne's edition has the additional appeal of lengthy manuscript notes compiled from a copy owned by Sir Thomas Egerton [?1540-1617], an attorney who held several important posts in Elizabethan England including Solicitor-General and Lord Chancellor. "Professor Thorne ... has carried out his difficult task with great skill and has prefixed an introduction which can be regarded as the most authoritative and most richly documented discussion as yet upon the problems of statutory interpretation from the later fourteenth century ... to the age of Coke." T.F.T. Plucknett, Law Quarterly Review 60:242 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 810.

Reprint of the Lectures delivered in the University of Dublin where, in the author's opinion, circumstances required a more detailed and precise historical work than that of Blackstone. Sullivan employed "an historical method... more entertaining to Beginners, and better adapted to shew the Reasons for the original law, and its several subsequent alterations.": (Preface). With the supporting authorities supplied by Gilbert Stuart, who also adds an introductory essay.

[Penn, William]. [Magna Charta]. The Excellent Priviledge of Liberty and Property. Being a Reprint and Fac-Simile of the First American Edition of Magna Charta Printed in 1687 Under the Direction of William Penn and William Bradford. Philadelphia: Printed for the Philobiblon Club, 1897. xv, 168, 63 pp. Reprint available November 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-398-7. Cloth. $125. * Reprint of a volume from an edition limited to 155 copies. There are only three known copies of the original 1687 edition. A lavish production, it has decorations by noted illustrator Edward Stratton Holloway, an introduction by Frederick D. Stone, extensive notes and a table of dates. It also includes texts of the Magna Charta, A Confirmation of the Liberties of England, and of the Forest, Made Anno XXV. Edward I, The Sentence of the Clergy Against the Breakers of Those Articles, The Sentence or Curse Given by the Bishops Against the Breakers of the Great Charter, A Statute Made Anno XXXIV. Edward I., Commonly Called De Tallegio non Concedendo, The Comment Upon the Statute De Tallegio non Concedendo and An Abstract of the Patent Granted by the King to William Penn and His Heirs and Assigns for the Province of Pennsylvania and The Frame of the Government of the Province of Pennsylvania and Territories Thereunto Annexed, in America.

The Common Law is Oliver Wendell Holmes' most sustained work of jurisprudence. In it the careful reader will discern traces of his later thought as found in both his legal opinions and other writings. At the outset of The Common Law Holmes posits that he is concerned with establishing that the common law can meet the changing needs of society while preserving continuity with the past. A common law judge must be creative, both in determining the society's current needs, and in discerning how best to address these needs in a way that is continuous with past judicial decisions. In this way, the law evolves by moving out of its past, adapting to the needs of the present, and establishing a direction for the future. To Holmes' way of thinking, this approach is superior to imposing order in accordance with a philosophical position or theory because the law would thereby lose the flexibility it requires in responding to the needs and demands of disputing parties as well as society as a whole. According to Holmes, the social environment--the economic, moral, and political milieu--alters over time. Therefore in order to remain responsive to this social environment, the law must change as well. But the law is also part of this environment and impacts it. There is, then, a continual reciprocity between the law and the social arrangements in which it is contextualized. And, as with the evolution of species, there is no starting over. Rather, in most cases, a judge takes existing legal concepts and principles, as these have been memorialized in legal precedent, and adapts them, often unconsciously, to fit the requirements of a particular case and present social conditions.

In this comparative study of the American and English constitutions, Tremenheere follows the arrangement of Story's Commentaries and "state[s] in as compendious a manner as is consistent with clearness, the substance of that learned judge's remarks and opinions, upon each of the most important articles of the Constitution." To this he adds "the observations of the authors of the 'Federalist,' and also those of Mr. Justice Kent, under the same heads, together with extracts from any other writers whose facts and opinions may seem worthy of consideration in connection with those of the above principal authorities" (Introduction). Tremenheere [1804-1893] was a member of the Inner Temple. The author of six exhaustive reports on child labor, his work was the foundation for at least fourteen acts of Parliament.

In A Series Of Questions, To Which The Student Is To Frame His Own Answers, By Reading That Work.