Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions

Story, Joseph. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, and Judgments. Second Edition. Revised, Corrected and Greatly Enlarged. London: A. Maxwell, 1841. xxxiv, 927 pp. (misnumbered in original, PP. 753-756 omitted.) Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-145-3. Cloth. $125. * With William Kent, Joseph Story shares the distinction of having had the greatest influence on American law during the nineteenth century. Marvin considers Story's Conflict of Laws to be the first systematic work on the subject. Story collected material from all available sources, and systematized it in a manner useful to all practitioners. "No work on international jurisprudence merited, nor received, greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for the extensive learning of Mr. Justice Story." Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 670-671. "It is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority...[it] received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts." Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 358. This facsimile reprint of the second edition published in London is the final authorial edition, produced "under the direction and sanction of the learned author." Sweet and Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations XV:337. Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University (1909) II:669, citing 2nd Boston ed. Parrish, 'Law Books and Legal Publishing in America, 1760-1840,' in Law Library J. (72:355-452) 434, citing 2nd Boston ed. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2725, citing 2nd Boston ed.Story, Joseph is the author of 'Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions', published 2001 under ISBN 9781584771456 and ISBN 1584771453.