Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources

Historical legal codes, statutes, regulations and commentaries on codes from various European countries providing interpretive analysis with books on codes, the "primary sources" of law. 

The collection covers a variety of topics such as:

• administration of justice
• civil law
• commercial law
• military law
• U.S. state and territorial codes
• municipal codes
• constitutional conventions and compilations
• commentaries on codes of countries around the world

This archive complements the collection of treatises found in The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600-1926 collection.