Includes bibliographical references and index

I. Our Lady And Her Knights
Continuity of the Common Law. Germanio origins and tradition.
II. The Giants and the Gods
Archaio formalism. Its necessity and tyranny. The King's authority as deliverer.
III. Surrebutter Castle.
Decadent formalism. Special pleading in nineteenth century. Baron Surrebutter and Crogate.
IV. Element in the Gate
External dangers. Medieval lawlessness. Officialism, ancient and modern. Administrative
encroachment. Popular and political jealousy. Socialism and Anarchism. The Common Law and
the Puritans.
V. Resoue And Ransom
Remedies within the Common Law: why artificial and Extensions of jurisdiction.partial. Lay interference.
Fictions. Reform by legislation: danger of amateur work.
VI. Alliance And Conquest
Borrowing. Competition with other systems. Assimila tion. Law merchant. Adaptation to modern business
conditions.
VII. Prerils of the Market-Place
Contact with economic opinion: conflicts of doctrine and tendency. Restraint of trade. Combinations
Responsibility of employers and undertakers.
VIII. The Perpetual Quest
Conclusion Vitality of the Common Law. Competence for unremitting advance. Vindication
of its native merit. Law the sister of Freedom.

The purpose of the Carpentier Lectures is not to furnish text-books for ordinary professional use, and I have there-fore not thought it proper to cite authorities except for a few historical illustrations too lately published to be familiar, or otherwise off the usual lines. Once or twice I have named a leading case for the convenience of learned readers. I do not think I have positively stated anything as law which will not be well known to any such reader, and easily verified if desired; and the same remark applies to the historical data. ---Lawbookshop.net