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Editions and contents of William Searle Holdsworth's *A History of English Law*
Book	Vol	Editors	Contents	edition
Book	Vol	Editors	Contents	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th
I: The Judicial System	1	7th ed Arthur L. Goodhart, Harold Greville Hanbury; intro by S. B. Chrimes	[7th ed. essay: contents p. xlix, text pp 1–77 inserted before p. 1] Introduction. Chap. I. Origins. Chap. II. The Decline of the Old Local Courts and the Rise of the New County Courts. Chap. III. The System of Common Law Jurisdiction. Chap. IV. The House of Lords. Chap. V. The Chancery. Chap. VI. The Council. Chap. VII. Courts of a Special Jurisdiction. Chap. VIII. The Reconstruction of the Judicial System.	1903	1914	1922 rewritten	1927 revised	1931	1938 revised	1956 revised
II: Anglo-Saxon Antiquities (449–1066)	2		Introduction. Part I. Sources and General Development. Part II. The Rules of Law . § 1 The Ranks of the People ; § 2 Criminal Law ; § 3 The Law of Property ; § 4 Family Law ; § 5 Self-help ; § 6 Procedure.	1908/9^{[fn 1]}	1914	1923 rewritten	1936
III: The Mediaeval Common Law (1066–1485)	2		Introduction. Part I. Sources and General Development : Chap. I. The Intellectual, Political, and Legal Ideas of the Middle Ages. Chap. II. The Norman Conquest to Magna Carta. Chap. III. The Reign of Henry III. Chap. IV. The Reign of Edward I. Chap. V. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries.	1908/9^{[fn 1]}	1914	1923 rewritten	1936
III: The Mediaeval Common Law (1066–1485)	3		Part II. The Rules of Law : Chap. I. The Land Law : § 1 The Real Actions ; § 2 Free Tenure, Unfree Tenure, and Chattels Real ; § 3 The Free Tenures and Their Incidents ; § 4 The Power of Alienation ; § 5 Seisin ; § 6 Estates ; § 7 Incorporeal Things ; § 8 Inheritance ; § 9 Curtsey and Dower ; § 10 Unfree Tenure ; § 11 The Term of Years ; § 12 The Modes and Forms of Conveyance ; § 13 Special Customs. Chap. II. Crime and Tort : § 1 Self-help ; § 2 Treason ; § 3 Benefit of Clergy, and Sanctuary and Abjuration ; § 4 Principal and Accessory ; § 5 Offences Against the Person ; § 6 Possession and Ownership of Chattels ; § 7 Wrongs to Property ; § 8 The Principles of Liability ; § 9 Lines of Future Development. Chap. III. Contract and Quasi-Contract. Chap. IV. Status : § 1 The King ; § 2 The Incorporate Person ; § 3 The Villeins ; § 4 The Infant ; § 5 The Married Woman. Chap. V. Succession to Chattels : § 1 The Last Will ; § 2 Restrictions on Testation and Intestate Succession ; § 3 The Representation of the Deceased. Chap. VI. Procedure and Pleading : § 1 The Criminal Law ; § 2 The Civil Law.	1908/9^{[fn 1]}	1914	1923 rewritten	1934	1942^{[fn 2]}
IV: The Common Law and its Rivals (1485–1700)	4		Introduction. Part I. Sources and General Development : Chap. I. The Sixteenth Century at Home and Abroad. Chap. II. English Law in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries : The Enacted Law.	1924^{[fn 3]}	1937	1945
	5		Chap. III. English Law in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries : Developments Outside the Sphere of the Common Law — International, Maritime, and Commercial Law. Chap. IV. English Law in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries : Developments Outside the Sphere of the Common Law — Law Administered by the Star Chamber and the Chancery. Chap. V. English Law in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries : The Development of the Common Law.	1924^{[fn 3]}	1937	1945^{[fn 4]}
	6		Chap. VI. The Public Law of the Seventeenth Century. Chap. VII. The Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century : The Enacted Law. Chap. VIII. The Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century ; The Professional Development of the Law.	1924	1937
	7		Part II. The Rules of Law. Chap. I. The Land Law : § 1 The Action of Ejectment ; § 2 Seisin Possession and Ownership ; § 3 Contingent Remainders ; § 4 Executory Interests ; § 5 Powers of Appointment ; § 6 The Rules against Perpetuities ; § 7 Landlord and Tenant ; § 8 Copyholds ; § 9 Incorporeal Things ; § 10 Conveyancing ; § 11 The Interpretation of Conveyances. Chap. II. Chattels Personal : § 1 The Action of Trover and Conversion ; § 2 The Ownership and Possession of Chattels ; § 3 Choses in Action.	1925	1937
	8		Chap. III. Contract and Quasi-Contract : § 1 The Doctrine of Consideration ; § 2 The Invalidity, the Enforcement, and the Discharge of Contract ; § 3 Ouasi-Contract. Chap. IV. The Law Merchant. I. — Commercial Law : § 1 Usury and the Usury Laws ; § 2 Negotiable Instruments ; § 3 Banking ; § 4 Commercial Societies ; § 5 Agency ; § 6 Bankruptcy. II. — Maritime Law. III. — Insurance. Chap. V. Crime and Tort. Lines of Development. § 1 Constructive Treason and Other Cognate Offences ; § 2 Defamation ; § 3 Conspiracy, Malicious Prosecution, and Maintenance ; § 4 Legal Doctrines resulting from Laws against Religious Nonconformity ; § 5 Lines of Future Development; § 6 The Principles of Liability.	1925/6	1937
	9		Chap. VI. Status : § 1 The King and Remedies against the Crown : § 2 The Incorporate Person ; § 3 British Subjects and Aliens. Chap. VII. Evidence, Procedure, and Pleading : § 1 Evidence ; § 2 Common Law Procedure and Pleading ; § 3 Equity Procedure and Pleading,	1926	1938	1944
V: The Centuries of Settlement and Reform (1701–1875)	10		Introduction. Part I. Sources and General Development ; Chap. I. The Eighteenth Century. Public Law.	1938
	11		Chap. II. The Eighteenth Century. The Enacted Law.	1938
	12		Chap. III. The Eighteenth Century. The Professional Development of the Law.	1938
	13	A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury	Chap. IV. From 1793 to the Reform Act, 1832. (a) from 1793 to the death of Pitt in 1806 (b) from 1806 to 1815 (c) from 1815 to the passing of the Reform Act of 1832 (d) the Reform Act of 1832 and its constitutional effects	1952
	14		Chap. V. From the Reform Act, 1832, to the Judicature Acts (1873-1875). I — Introduction II — Public Law	1964
	15		III — The Enacted Law Commerce and Industry Civil Procedure and Pleading Evidence Criminal Law and Procedure The Land Law Equity Ecclesiastical Law Miscellaneous Contract Tort Persons IV — The Legal Profession V — The Reports VI — Legal Literature VII — The Common Lawyer and the Common Law	1965
	16		VIII — Chancellors, Masters of the Rolls, Lords Justices in Chancery, and Vice-Chancellors, IX — The Civilians	1966
Tables and index	—	Edward Potton	Index to first 9 vols; dunno if v.1 was 3rd, 4th, or 5th ed.	1932
General Index	17	John Burke		1972

Notes

^ ^a ^b ed3 says "First Published May 1903", but this refers to vol. 1; Preface to 3rd edition makes clear that vols 2 and 3 were first published in 1909. OTOH unlear whether the second (1914) edition applied to all 3 vols or just vol 1.
^ "In this [5th] edition some inaccuracies have been corrected, cross references to the volumes and pages of later volumes have been inserted, and some additional authorities and illustrations have been inserted in the Addenda et Corrigenda."
^ ^a ^b ed1 gives 1923 date, but ed3 gives 1924 date for ed1
^ ed3 has "second edition" on title page

wildy.com print-on-demand of 16 vols (vol. 2 missing) under ISBN 9780421313408 gives relevant "nth ed" for vols 1–9 and "Published" month for all vols. This establishes the latest edition of each.

[v2a3ed1year-1] 3 says "First Published May 1903", but this refers to vol. 1; Preface to 3rd edition makes clear that vols 2 and 3 were first published in 1909. OTOH unlear whether the second (1914) edition applied to all 3 vols or just vol 1.

[2] "In this [5th] edition some inaccuracies have been corrected, cross references to the volumes and pages of later volumes have been inserted, and some additional authorities and illustrations have been inserted in the Addenda et Corrigenda."

[v4a5ed1year-3] 1 gives 1923 date, but ed3 gives 1924 date for ed1

[4] 3 has "second edition" on title page

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