Machine derived contents note: 1. The background 2. Feudal Law 3. The Glossators 4. The Commentators 5. Canon Law 6. The Law Merchant 7. The IUS Commune 8. The Common Law of England 9. Feudal Scotland 10. Humanism and Reformation 11. Law in Germany 12. The Development of French Law 13. The Seventeenth Century 14. The Making of Scots Law 15. Enlightenment and Codification 16. Codification in the Nineteenth Century 17. New Trends in Law, 1815-1914 18. The Twentieth Century and on Appendices Index