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Product Description The first edition of this book, published in 1983 and reissued in 1988, has proved to be essential reading for students beginning legal studies. The second edition, for which the text has been completely revised, presents a straightforward outline of the important developments of the common law and provides the background essential for an understanding of the law. Review 'A short way into the book I stopped writing things in the margin and realised that I was both admiring and enjoying it... This is a book which has a relatively modest aim, to provide a general understanding of the development of legal institutions and legal thought in common law jurisdictions... I think that it succeeds admirably and may induce people to turn to other and weightier tomes. As such it is, I think, to be welcomed.' Richard W. Ireland, University College, Aberystwyth, The Journal of Legal History, December 1992 About the Author Derek Roebuck, Professor of Law, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong.