Cambridge Legal Essays: Written in Honour of and Presented to Doctor Bond, Professor Buckland, and Professor KennySir Percy Henry Winfield, Arnold Duncan McNair Baron McNair Written in honour of and presented to Doctor Bond, Professor Buckland, and Professor Kenny. |
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With Juvenal his subject will be humanity : - " Quidquid agunt homines , votum timor ira voluptas Gaudia discursus , nostri farrago libelli est . " 20 B WILLIAM WARWICK BUCKLAND , LL.D. , F.B.A. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF HENRY BOND 5.
With Juvenal his subject will be humanity : - " Quidquid agunt homines , votum timor ira voluptas Gaudia discursus , nostri farrago libelli est . " 20 B WILLIAM WARWICK BUCKLAND , LL.D. , F.B.A. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF HENRY BOND 5.
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| Title | Cambridge Legal Essays: Written in Honour of and Presented to Doctor Bond, Professor Buckland, and Professor Kenny Legal classics library |
| Editors | Sir Percy Henry Winfield, Arnold Duncan McNair Baron McNair |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1926 |
| Length | 331 pages |
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