Codification of the Common Law: Letter of Jeremy Bentham, and Report of Judges Story, Metcalf and Others.

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Cover title. Preface signed: David Dudley Field. "Story's Report": p. 25-63. Contains the greater part of Bentham's fourth letter, entitled "Of completeness as applied to the Body of the Laws: -- and herein a Common Law," in his series on codification

New York : J. Polhemus, printer, 1882. 63 p. ; 23 cm.