The Growth of the Manor
Description:... Vinogradoff, Sir Paul [1854-1925]. The Growth of the Manor. London: George Allen & Company, 1911. ix, 384 pp. Reprint available February, 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-475-4. Cloth. $95. * Reprint of the second, revised edition. One of the principal studies of the eminent legal scholar, it is a key work for students of the Domesday book, early court rolls, extents and plea rolls. Vinogradoff [1854-1925] sketches the nature of land law in the generations before Domesday, then considers the growth of the law during the feudal period. In a review of the first edition in the Law Quarterly Review, W. Pailey Baildon observed that scholars will read this book with "pleasure and advantage.": Law Quarterly Review 21:300 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 148.
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