Reprint of volume 5, Continental Legal History Series. Originally published: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1913. xlv, 640 pp. Translated by John Simpson; with an editorial preface by William E. Mikell and introductions by Norman M. Trenholme and by William Renwick Riddell.
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Esmein, the foremost legal scholar of France if not of the world" has here analyzed criminal procedure from its Roman origin, through primitive Germanic, and throughout French criminal procedure from the 1200s to the 1800s, as well as 19th century criminal procedure in other countries in this "masterly work...This volume is to be unqualifiedly commended as a standard and sufficient history of continental criminal procedure. --J.H.B. Harv. L. Rev. 27:294-295
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