Download or read book A Treatise on Obligations Considered in a Moral and Legal View written by Robert Joseph Pothier and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by Francois-Xavier Martin. Originally published: NewBern, N.C.: Martin & Ogden, 1802. 2 vols. in 1 book. xii (iii-xii new introduction), xii], 364; ix], 315, 1] pp. With a new introduction by Warren M. Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans and Bicentennial Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Reprint of the rare New Bern edition. In the decades before the Civil War this classic treatise was required reading for practitioners, scholars and law students. Martin, an attorney and printer in New Bern, North Carolina, later a distinguished lawyer in Louisiana, gained distinction for this translation. This treatise was an important influence on British and American contract law. Marvin quotes and endorses an assessment by Luther Cushing that includes the following remark by one of Pothier's earlier editors, Andr Dupin: " Pothier on Obligations] is not only a good book of law, but an excellent book on morals; a work of all countries, of all nations; a book, to which antiquity can present to rival but the Offices of Cicero." John Gage Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 578. "The Treatise on Obligations was soon recognized as a major contribution to legal science."--David M. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 973. ROBERT JOSEPH POTHIER 1699-1772] was arguably the greatest French jurist of the eighteenth century. A brilliant scholar, he is renowned for his treatises on Roman law and the various branches of French civil law, which were primary sources for the French Civil Code. FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARTIN 1762-1846], a Frenchborn lawyer, judge, author, translator, printer and historian, is an important figure in the legal history of the south. His career began in North Carolina. He later moved to the Louisiana territory, where he played the central role in the reorganization of its legal system. Appointed attorney-general when Louisiana became a state, he is considered the father of Louisiana jurisprudence.

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Download or read book Law Books in Action written by Angela Fernandez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise' explores the history of the legal treatise in the common law world. Rather than looking at treatises as shortcuts from 'law in books' to 'law in action', the essays in this collection ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. This book, then, is the first study of the legal treatise as a 'law book in action', an active text produced by individuals with ideas about what they wanted the law to be, not a mere stepping-stone to codes and other forms of legal writing, but a multifaceted genre of legal literature in its own right, practical and fanciful, dogmatic and ornamental in turn. This book will be of interest to legal scholars, lawyers and judges, as well as to anyone else with a scholarly interest in law in general, and legal history in particular.

Download or read book A Law unto Itself written by Warren M. Billings and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana's legal heritage has long been a source of fascination, curiosity, and sadly, misinformation. Outsiders have viewed the legal system as an anomaly and have shunned its study because of its perceived quirkiness. Moreover, past writings about the state's legal structure have focused on the minutiae of Louisiana's civil law origins, adding to an image of peculiarity. Consequently, Louisiana has been generally ignored in treatments of American or southern legal history. Recently, however, a new vision has emerged the New Louisiana Legal History. A product of an energetic cadre of writers, this rendering explores new methods and areas of research with the aim of integrating Louisiana into the mainstream of American legal history, southern history, and American history in general. The ten essays in this volume -- which address law in the state through the nineteenth century -- mark the coming of age of the New Louisiana Legal History. Grounded in novel research methodologies and underutilized manuscripts, this book links the distinctive history of Louisiana law to the wider contexts of southern and American history and offers an exciting new interpretation of the state's unique past.

Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Income Taxation Under Federal and State Laws written by Henry Campbell Black and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black, Henry Campbell. A Treatise on the Law of Income Taxation under Federal and State Laws. Kansas City: Vernon Law Book Co., 1913. xlii, 403 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-237-9. Cloth. $85. * In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment, which authorized income taxation, was ratified by the required three-fourths majority of states. Black [1860-1927] published this work soon after this historic event in order to define the nature of taxable income, explain the history of income taxation and defend the government's right to impose it. He is guided throughout by a Progressive-Era belief in the federal government as an agent of social reform. Black is also the author of the well-known Law Dictionary.

Download or read book From Chaos to Continuity written by Mark Fernandez and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long viewed Louisiana as an anomaly in the American judicial system-an eccentric appendage at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The diverse Creole culture and civilian heritage of the state's legal system have led many scholars to conclude that it is an anachronism in American law unworthy of serious attention. Others embrace this tradition and revel in the minutiae of the Pelican State's unique civil law legacy. In From Chaos to Continuity, Mark F. Fernandez challenges both perspectives. Using the innovative methods of the New Louisiana Legal History, he offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of the courts in the development of Louisiana's legal system and convincingly argues that the state is actually a representative model of American law and justice. Tracing the rise of Louisiana's system from its earliest colonial origins to its closure during Federal occupation in 1862, Fernandez describes the introduction of common law after American takeover of the colony; the chaotic combination of French, Spanish, and Anglo legal traditions; the evolution of that jurisdiction; the role of the courts-especially the state supreme court-in maintaining the mixture; and the judge's proper function in administering justice. According to Fernandez, the challenge of integrating two very different systems of law was not unique to Louisiana. Indeed, most antebellum southern states had legal systems that incorporated important traditional aspects of their colonial legal orders to varying degrees. From Chaos to Continuity liberates Louisiana's legal history from the quirky restraints of the past and allows scholars and students alike to see the state as an integral part of American legal history.

Download or read book Principle and Policy in Contract Law written by Stephen Waddams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although presented as being derived from the past, principles in contract law have been subject to constant reformulation, thereby facilitating legal change while simultaneously seeming to preclude it. Principle and policy have been mutually interdependent, propositions not usually being called principles unless they have been perceived to lead to just results in particular cases, and as likely to produce results in future cases that accord with common sense, commercial convenience and sound public policy. The influence of policy has been frequent in contract law, but Stephen Waddams argues that an unmediated appeal to non-legal sources of policy has been constrained by the need to formulate generalised propositions recognised as legal principles. This interrelation of principle and policy has played an important role in enabling an uncodified system to hold a middle course between a rigid formalism on the one hand and an unconstrained instrumentalism on the other.

Download or read book An Essay on Equity in Pennsylvania written by Antony Laussat and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laussat, Anthony. An Essay on Equity in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Published for the Institution, by Robert Desilver, 1826. vi, [7]-157, [2] pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 00-067115. ISBN 1-58477-139-9. Cloth. $60. * Written in 1825 and submitted as a dissertation to the Law Academy of Philadelphia. Laussat [1806-1833], a Philadelphia lawyer, traces the history of equity in the state, paying particular attention to the influence of Quaker beliefs and English Common Law. Although the work takes as its subject the law of equity in Pennsylvania, he views equity in its most profound sense, as the foundation of moral law. This study received high praise from Chancellor Kent, John Marshall, and George Sharswood. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 4976.

Download or read book Law Language and Change written by Caroline Laske and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Laske traces the advent of consideration in English contract law by analysing doctrinal developments and the corresponding terminological semantic shifts, showcasing the value of taking an innovative diachronic corpus linguistics-based approach to the study of legal change and legal development.

Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Obligations Or Contracts written by Robert Joseph Pothier and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of the Roman Law written by Luther Stearns Cushing and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally compiled as a short course of lectures on the Roman law, and read before the Law School at Cambridge, in the second term of the academic year 1848-1849."--P. [v].

Download or read book A Treatise on Maritime Law written by Henry Flanders and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flanders, Henry. A Treatise on Maritime Law. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1852. xvi, 444 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-50814. ISBN 1-886363-72-2. Cloth. $75. * One of the most admired admiralty lawyers in the country, Flanders [1824-1911] had been a member of the New Hampshire Bar who moved his practice to Philadelphia after the publication of this successful work. Dictionary of American Biography describes this and his later work A Treatise on the Law of Shipping (1853) as works that "gave evidence of deep research and unusual ability. Distinguished for lucid exposition and attractive style, these works in a short time became acknowledged authorities upon the subject with which they dealt.": Dictionary of American Biography III:454.

Download or read book Constructing the Family written by Luke Taylor and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century England, legal conceptions of work and family changed in fundamental ways. Notably, significant legal moves came into play that changed the legal understanding of the family. Constructing the Family examines the evolution of the legal-discursive framework governing work and family relations. Luke Taylor considers the intersecting intellectual and institutional forces that contributed to the dissolution of the household, the establishment of separate spheres of work and family, and the emergence of modern legal and social ideas concerning work and family. He shows how specific legal-institutional moves contributed to the creation of the family’s categorical status in the social and legal order and a distinct and exceptional body of rules – Family Law – for its governance. Shedding light on the historical processes that contributed to the emergence of English Family Law, Constructing the Family shows how work and family became separate regulatory domains, and in so doing reveals the contingent nature of the modern legal family.

Download or read book Agreements written by Oliver Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of agreements which combines the use of philosophical analysis and legal theory.