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George Herbert Stutfield
A late-Victorian English barrister who turned tricky corners of commercial and gambling law into practical books for working professionals. His best-known writing explains how betting, time-bargains, and Stock Exchange rules were understood in the courts of his day.
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The law relating to betting, time-bargains and gaming
by George Herbert Stutfield, Henry Strother Cautley
About the author
George Herbert Stutfield was an English barrister and legal writer active in the late 19th century. Records in Alumni Oxonienses show that he matriculated at University College, Oxford, in 1876 at age 20 and received his B.A. in 1879.
A notice in Joseph Foster's Men-at-the-Bar describes him as a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Middle Temple from January 25, 1878, and called to the bar on May 11, 1881. The same source also identifies him as the second son of William Stutfield of Netherdale, Turriff, Banffshire.
Stutfield is remembered chiefly for practical law books, including The Law Relating to Betting, Time-bargains and Gaming and The Rules and Usages of the Stock Exchange. Those works suggest a writer focused on the real mechanics of finance, speculation, and wagering law rather than abstract theory, making his books especially useful to readers interested in how Victorian legal and commercial life actually worked.