Lawyers and the making of English land law, 1832-1940

"In this book Stuart Anderson offers a completely fresh interpretation of the manner in which the concepts found in the 1925 property legislation were formed by debates about law reform beginning in the 1840s. Examining texts of the statutes with a historian's eye Anderson explains how the statutes were enacted, by whom and for what reasons. Partly a work of modern legal history, partly a commentary on modern English land law, this book should be read by all modern legal historians, property lawyers, and historians concerned with the relationship between property, politics, and the professions."--BOOK JACKET.