Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England

Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England is by the late Francis Stoughton Sullivan, Royal Professor of Common Law in the University of Dublin. The book is described as lectures on the constitution and laws of England, with a commentary on Magna Charta and illustrations of many of the English statutes. The second edition says Authorities are added and a Discourse is prefixed, concerning the Laws and Government of England, by Gilbert Stuart, LL. D.

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