Anglo-American Legal Bibliographies

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Anglo-American Legal Bibliographies: An Annotated Guide is a book written by William Lawrence Friend and published in 1944 by the United States Government Printing Office. It is a metabibliography which contains entries for 298 Anglo-American legal bibliographies.

A metabibliography is a bibliography of bibliographies.

Glanville Williams advised students, who want to conduct deeper research than an ordinary practitioner would, to look at this book. [1]

Glanville Llewelyn Williams was a Welsh legal scholar who was the Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 to 1978 and the Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London, from 1945 to 1955. He has been described as Britain's foremost scholar of criminal law.

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Learning the Law is a book written by Glanville Williams and edited by him and A. T. H. Smith. It professes to be a "Guide, Philosopher and Friend".

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A civil wrong or wrong is a cause of action under the law of the governing body. Tort, breach of contract and breach of trust are types of civil wrong. Something that amounts to a civil wrong is said to be wrongful. A wrong involves the violation of a right because wrong and right are complementary terms. A statement that an act complained of is legally wrongful as regards the party complaining implicitly includes a statement that the act complained of prejudicially affects the party complaining in some legal right.

Stroud's Judicial Dictionary is a law dictionary. The First Edition by Frederick Stroud was published in 1890. The Second Edition was by the same author and was published in 1903. A supplement by the same author was published in 1906. A supplement by Elsie Wheeler was published in 1930. A supplement by John Burke was published in 1947. The Third Edition was published between 1951 and 1953 under the General Editorship of J Burke and P Allsop. The First Supplement to that edition was published in 1956. The Second Cumulative Supplement by L Leowe and Charles Moss was published in 1965. The Fourth Edition by John S James was published between 1971 and 1974. The First Supplement to that edition was by the same author and was published in 1979.

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Legal Bibliography is a book by John Gage Marvin. It is a bibliography of law. It was the first publication of its kind to originate from the United States of America.

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Current Law Statutes Annotated, published between 1994 and 2004 as Current Law Statutes, contains annotated copies of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed since 1947 and Acts of the Scottish Parliament passed since 1999. It is published by Sweet & Maxwell in London and by W Green in Edinburgh. It was formerly also published by Stevens & sons in London.

Where to Look for Your Law is a bibliography of law. It is "well known". It has been described as "valuable", as "an indispensable tool" and as "an old friend". By 1990, it was "very outdated".

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Law Books in Print is a descriptive legal bibliography. It was published by Glanville Press. Marke, Sloan and Ryan said it is "an excellent source". S. Houston Lay said that a copy should be in the possession of all substantial law libraries. Law Books in Print is the primary series for the determination of prices and current editions. It is updated by Law Books Published.

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History is a collection of 76 essays about the history of Anglo-American law. It was published, under the direction of a committee of the Association of American Law Schools, by Little, Brown and Company, in Boston, in three octavo volumes, from 1907 to 1909.

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Stanley John Bailey (1901–1980) was Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge from 1950 to 1968. He was author of The Law of Wills, an "introductory survey" which was "well known" and "extremely readable". He was editor of the Cambridge Law Journal from 1948 to 1954. He wrote articles for that journal and for the Law Quarterly Review.

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  1. Glanville Williams. Learning the Law. Eleventh Edition. Stevens. 1982. Pages 179 and 180.