woo WOMEN. The Lawes Resolutions of Women's Rights, or the Lawes Provision for Women ; a methodicall Collection of such Statutes and Customes, with the Cases, Opinions, Arguments, and Points of Learning in the Law, as doe properly concerne Wo- men. 4to. London. 1632. The composition of this volume has been ascribed to Mr. Justice Dodderidge. Lord Campbell speaks of it as " a learned work on the subject of marriage." 10 CI. & Fin. 846 ; Pref. Shep. Touch. WOOD, THOMAS. A new Institute of the Lnperial and Civil Law ; to which is added, an Introduction to the Laws in general, with Notes. 4th ed. fol. London. 1730. The author gives the following account of his work. " Now this performance, in respect only of the civil law and the laws of England, is a work of a different nature from that composed in Latin, by the learned Dr. Coweli. His chief design was to give an Institute of the laws of England, according to the method of the Imperial Institutes ; my intent is to compile an Institute of the imperial laws in a less ob- scure, and in a more comprehensive way than that collected by Tribo- nian, &c. Dr. Coweli shows some differences and agreements in the civil law by an Institute of the laws of England in Justinian's method; I have shown some disagreements in the laws of England, by way of notes added to a new system of the civil law. His Institute is founded much upon the old law of Wards and Liveries, Tenures in Capite, and Knight Service, since taken away and destroyed, and upon other laws since thrown off; whereas my endeavor has been to adopt my observa- tions on the laws of England to the present establishment. But I fol- low liim, when I maintain that the laws of England are a composition of the civil, canon, and feudal laws, and that there is a greater affinity or union between them, than the professors of the civil and common laws do generally apprehend." " Wood's Institute of the Civil Law," says Dr. Brown, " though an excellent work for the student, pursues a method not familiar to the English lawyer." Pref. Brown's Civ. Law, 2 ; Pref. Wood's Civ. Law, 88. . Some Thoughts concerning the Study of the Laws of England, particularly in the two Universities. 8vo. London. 1727. . Institute of the Laws of England ; or, the Laws of England in their natural order, according to common use. 10th edition, corrected and enlarged, hy a Serjeant at Law. fol. Lon- don. 1772. Before the Commentaries of Sir William Blackstone were published, Woodh Institute was the only treatise that furnished a comprehensive 743
