Odgers on the Common Law of England

Introduction

Odgers on the Common Law of England. Third Edition. By ROLAND BURROWS, LL.D., Reader in the Inns of Court. 2 vols. 1,521 pages. 1927

Odgers on the Common Law deals with Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Civil Procedure, the Courts, and the Law of Persons.

The Student who masters it can pass the following Bar Examinations:

(1) Criminal Law and Procedure.

(2) Common Law.

(3) General Paper Part I,

And (with Cockle’s Cases and Statutes on Evidence):

(4) Law of Evidence and Civil Procedure.

(5) General Paper Part III.

Some Opinions of Professors and Tutors

1. The Bar:

• “I have most carefully examined the work, and shall most certainly recommend it to all students reading with mefor the Bar Examinations.”
• “It appears to me to be an invaluable book to a student who desires to do well in his examinations. The sections dealing with Criminal Law and Procedure are, in my opinion, especially valuable. They deal with these difficult subjects in a manner exactly fitted to the examinations; and in tins the work differs from any other book I know.”
• “I have been reading through Dr. Odgers’ Common Law, and find it a most excellent work for the Bar Final, also for the BarCriminal Law.”

2. The Universities.

• “I consider it to be a useful and comprehensive work on a very wide subject, more especially from the point of view of a law student. I shall be glad to recommend it to the favourable attention of law students of the University.’

3. Solicitors.

• THE BOOK FOR THE SOLICITORS. FINAL. “Once the Intermediate is over, the articled clerk has some latitude allowed as to his course of study. And, without the slightest hesitation, we say that the first book he should tackle after negotiating the Intermediate is ‘Odgers on the Common Law”.

• “The volumes may seem a somewhat ‘hefty task,’ but these two volumes give one less trouble to read than any single volume of any legal text-book of our acquaintance. They cover, moreover, all that is most interesting in the wide field of legal studies in a manner more interesting than it has ever been treated before”

See Also

• The common law of England: being the tenth edition of Broom’s Commentaries on the common law.
• The common law of England.
• A guide to criminal law & procedure: intended for the use of students for the bar final, and for the solicitors’ final examinations.
• A digest of the law of libel and slander: and of actions on the case for words causing damage: with the evidence, procedure, practice, and precedents of pleadings, both in civil and criminal cases.
• A guide to criminal law: intended for the use of students for the bar final, and for the solicitors’ final examinations.
• The law of libel and slander: and of actions on the case for words causing damage: with evidence, procedure, practice, and precedents of pleadings, both in civil and criminal cases.
• The right to and the cause for action: both civil and criminal: at law, in equity, and admiralty under the common law and under the codes.
• Trial evidence: the rules of evidence applicable on the trial of civil actions: including both causes of action and defenses at common law, in equity and under the codes of procedure.
• The intermediate law examination made easy: a complete guide to self-preparation in the 15th edition of Mr. Serjeant Stephen’s New commentaries on the laws of England: being the subject selected for the intermediate examinations of the Law Society.