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* Read * The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Ë eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Common Law First published in 1881, this book is still indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, historians, general readers — anyone interested in the origins, development, and continuing evolution of the laws that govern human society.. Beginning with historical forms of liability (thought to have originated in the desire for vengeance in ancient Roman and Germanic blood feuds), the book goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bails, possession and ownership, contracts, successions,
| Title | : | The Common Law |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.24 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0486267466 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
The Philosophical Basis For Our Legal System Peter L. Swinford This book is a little tedious for us non-lawyers, but it does illustrate some interesting points:Law emerged from the need to get away from revenge/feud dynamics. And it originated during times when most people couldn't write, so the issue of proving a case (such as in a agr. as promised Amazon Customer as as promised. "Great but not necessarily for the layman" according to Alan_Robinson. Several others have written covering the contents of The Common Law. I will just emphasize that most of the book focuses on how contemporary (in 1881) legal doctrines and issues had originated and developed in the cases and decisions of English courts from around 1200 AD onw
First published in 1881, this book is still indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, historians, general readers — anyone interested in the origins, development, and continuing evolution of the laws that govern human society.. Beginning with historical forms of liability (thought to have originated in the desire for vengeance in ancient Roman and Germanic blood feuds), the book goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bails, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law.Encompassing Holmes's profound, wide-ranging knowledge of the law in its historical aspects, yet written in a manner easily accessible to the layman, The Common Law provoked this observation from another famed jurist; "The book is a classic in the sense that its stock of ideas has been absorbed and become part of common juristic thought … they placed law in a perspective which legal scholarship ever since has merely confirmed." — Felix Frankfurter, Of Law and Men.Now the influential ideas and judicial theory of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. In more than 2000 opinions, he delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced
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