''The Sources of English Law'' (as it is sometimes known) is an essay written by the German historian

Heinrich Brunner Heinrich Brunner ( en, Henry Brunner; 21 June 1840 – 11 August 1915) was a German historian. Life Brunner was born at Wels in Upper Austria. After studying at the universities of Vienna, Göttingen and Berlin, he became professor at the Un ...

and translated by others. In 1909, it was described as a "valuable survey of the sources and literature of English law".J T. "Short Notices".

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. Volume 24. October 1909. Page 823
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/ref> In 1914, Winfield called it a "valuable" guide "to the materials of English law".

Editions, reprints and translations

This essay was published under the title Ueberblick über die Geschichte der französischen, normannischen, und englischen Rechtsquellen in 1877 in the third edition of '' Encyclopädie der Rechtwissenschaft'', by

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, at pages 229 to 267, as Part II, section 4. It was reprinted in 1882, in the fourth edition of that work, at pages 277 to 317; and in 1890, in the fifth edition, at pages 303 to 347. It was omitted from the sixth edition published in 1904. It was translated into English by W Hastie and published under the title The Sources of the Law of England at Edinburgh in 1888. This publication does not disclose the edition from which it is translated. A translation by

Ernst Freund Ernst Freund (born January 30, 1864 in New York City – died October 20, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) was a noted American legal scholar. He received a Dr. Jur. from the University of Heidelberg (1884) and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia ...

was published under the title The Sources of English Law in volume 2 of ''

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'', at pages 7 to 52. The notes to this volume say that the version contained therein is "revised, enlarged and recast" by Brunning, who has omitted so much of the essay as relates to Norman and French sources.

. Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1908. Volume 2. Page 7. Footnote 1
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This version was published, "with some further revision", in its German dress, under the title Geschichte der Englischen Rechtsquellen im Grundiss in Leipzig in 1909 by Duncker and Humblot. This version has been described as follows:

References

*Heinrich Brunner. Translated by William Hastie. The Sources of the Law of England: An Historical Introduction to the Study of English Law. 12mo. T & T Clark. Edinburgh. 1888. Digitized copie

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. *Heinrich Brunner. Translated by Ernst Freund. The Sources of English Law. Reprinted from volume two of Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History. Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1908
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from Internet Archive. *Geschichte der englischen Rechtsquellen im Grundriss: mit einem Anhang über die normanischen Rechtsquellen. 8vo. Leipzig. 1909. *Parow. "Literaturbericht". Historiche Zeitschrift. Bd 105, H 3, 1910. Pages 642 - 643
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