Book Description: Originally published: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. xii, 390 pp. Stimson [1853-1943] was a professor of comparative legislation at Harvard University. His study of statute creation is a thorough survey that starts with the English idea of law, goes on to cover early English legislation and the Magna Charta, the re-establishment of Anglo-Saxon law and the question of common law against civil law, early labor legislation and laws against restraint of trade and "trust," medieval legislation, then discusses English and American rates and prices, corporations, labor laws, military and mob law and the right to arms, legislation concerning personal and racial rights, sex legislation, marriage and divorce, American legislation in general and property rights in particular, and more.