CONTENTS PART III. THE AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD 11. English Common Law in the Early American Colonies . . . Paul Samuel Reinsch 12. The Extension of English Statutes to the Plan- tations . St. George Leakin Sioussat 13. The Influence of Colonial Conditions, as Illus- trated in the Connecticut Intestacy Law . . 431 Charles McLean Andrews PART IV. expansion AND REFORM OF THE LAW IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 14. Anticipations under the Commonwealth of Changes in the Law . . R. Robinson 467 15. Bentham's Influence in the Reforms of the Nine- ^^^< teenth Century . John Forrest Dillon 492 r 16. Progress in the Administration of Justice during the Victorian Period . . . . . 516 ' Charles Synge Christopher, Baron Bowen 17. The Development of Jurisprudence during the Nineteenth Century . . . . . ( 558 Joseph Henry Beale, Jr. 18. The Extension of Roman and English Law throughout the World . James Bryce { 574 PART V. bench and BA]^ FROM NORMAN TIMES TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 19. The Five Ages of the Bench and Bar of Eng- .^ land . . . John Maxcy Zane 625 V 20. A Century of English Judicature . . . 730 Van Vechten Veeder 21. An American Law Student of a Hundred Years Ago ..... James Kent 837
