Lawyers and the Making of English Land Law 1832-1940

J. Stuart Anderson is lecturer in law at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and a former fellow and Tutor in Law, of Hertford College, Oxford

`This is an interesting and scholarly book, giving a comprehensive account of the many vicissitudes in the struggle for the reform of the land law in the period covered by the book ... well researched and as is to be expected from this house, well presented. It represents an interesting contribution to legal history ...'New Law Journal

• Lawyers and law reform; conveyancing reform; title registration achieved; perfecting a private market; professionalism, officialism - solicitors and the state; 1898-1912 - the old order resurgent; lawyers law - the conveyancing Bills 1913-1914; law fit for heroes; retrospect and epilogue.