Charles Dickens As A Legal Historian

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHARLES DICKENS AS A LEGAL HISTORIAN PUBLISHED ON THE FUND ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF GANSON GOODYEAR DEPEW The Storrs Lectures The addresses contained in this book were de livered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series, 1927, before the Law School of Yale University. Other titles in this series, published by the Yale University Press, are: The Reform of Legal Procedure, by Moorfield Storey. The Judiciary and the People, by Frederick N. Judson. Concerning Justice, by Lucilius A. Emery. Woman's Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment, by Henry St. George Tucker. The Nature of the Judicial Process, by Benjamin N. Cardozo. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law, by Roscoe Pound. LONDON Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press CHARLES DICKENS AS A LEGAL HISTORIAN By William S. Holdsworth K. C., D. CJL Hon. LLD. Vinerian Professor of Law at Oxford University Bencher of Lincoln's Inn' NEW HAVEN Yak University Press 1929' C'opyrtgkV, 1928, by Yale University Press Printed in the United States of America First published, September, 1928 Second printing, January, 1929 I wish to thank my wife and Professor Smalley-Baker, Barber Professor of Law in the University of Birmingham, for seeing these Lectures through the press during my absence in India. W. S. E. Oxford April 1928 Contents I. The Courts and the Dwellings of the Lawyers i II The Lawyers, Lawyers' Clerks, and Other Satellites of the Law 43 III. Bleak House and the Procedure of the Court of Chancery 79 IV. Pickwick and the Procedure of the Common Law 117 Index 151 Dickens as a