THE EXPANSION OF THE COMMON LAW. BY SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., D.C.L., HON. LL.D., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France; late Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, Author of "PRINCIPLES OF CONTRACT," "THE LAW OF TORTS," etc., etc. LONDON: STEVENS AND SONS, LIMITED, 119 & 120, CHANCERY LANE, AB ΤΟ FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND. Kinder werfen den Ball an die Wand und fangen ihn wieder: Aber ich lobe das Spiel, wirft mir der Freund ihn zurück. GOETHE: Vier Jahreszeiten. PREFACE. THE lectures from which this volume is named were delivered to the Law Schools of several American Universities last autumn. A few additions have been made to the original text. The address given at the request of the Harvard Law School Association for its commemoration of 1895 was not intended at the time to have any sequel, but is now prefixed to the course of 1903 as being sufficiently germane to the matter to serve as a general introduction. Familiar matters of both fact and law were necessarily taken for granted in delivering the lectures; and it does not now seem desirable to vouch authorities at large for them. References have been given only where it is thought that they may be really useful for verification or farther search. |