title: The Anglo-American Legal Heritage: Introductory Materials
author:  Daniel R. Coquillette 
description: "...I came to like it so much that I have decided to assign it as a main text..." -- <i>The New England Quarterly</i><br /><br />"It leads the reader through some of the more recent developments in the American legal landscape..." --<i>Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer 1999</i>
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  Title: Legal Lore  
  Curiosities of Law and Lawyers  
    
  Author: Various  
    
  Editor: William Andrews  
    
  Release Date: January 16, 2012 [EBook #38589]  
    
  Language: English  
    
    
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  # The Lawyer in History, Literature, and Humour.
  
  
  Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.
  
  
  “A welcome addition to the lighter literature of the law.”— _The Times._
  
  
  “A considerable amount of historical and literary in