John Mitchell Kemble
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Kemble
in the texts
Ancient Law
Scholar of Germanic and early English legal antiquities.
English legal history was very imperfectly known, and what was known was concealed under huge masses of comparatively modern formalism.
On the other hand, those who made their results known to English readers, John Mitchell Kemble the foremost, were not learned in the modern law of England, Edition:
The Genius of the Common Law
Editor of Anglo-Saxon charters and author of essays on Anglo-Saxon law.
Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law, p.