Download or read book Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom written by Eva N.S. Ng and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you into a common-law courtroom which is in no way similar to any other courtroom where common law is practised. This uniqueness is characterised, in particular, by the use of English as the trial language in a predominantly Cantonese-speaking society and by the presence of other bilinguals in court, thus presenting specific challenges for the interpreters who work in it, and at times rendering the interpretation service superfluous. This study, inter alia, problematises judges’ intervention in the court proceedings, Chinese witnesses testifying in English, as well as English-language trials heard by Chinese jurors. It demonstrates how the use of chuchotage proves to be inadequate and inappropriate in the Hong Kong courtroom, where interpreting in an English-language trial is arguably provided to cater for the need of the linguistic majority. This book is useful to interpreters, language educators, legal professionals, forensic linguists and policy makers alike.
Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Common Law" by Oliver Wendell Holmes. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he became U.S. Supreme Court justice in 1902, American jurist OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. (1841-1935) was already famous as the most influential proponent for and teacher of the common law. In this collection of lectures-originally delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston and first gathered in book form in 1881-Holmes introduces us to basic concepts of the common law and explains his reasoning of them. Discussed are: [ liability [ criminal law [ trespass and negligence [ fraud, malice, and intent [ possession and ownership [ the contract [ and much more. One of the most widely cited members of the Supreme Court, Holmes continues to dramatically impact the U.S. legal system to this day. This classic volume of his jurisprudence-reproduced here from the 1938 31st printing-is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern American law.
Download or read book The Common Law in Two Voices written by Kwai Hang Ng and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong is one of the very few places in the world where the common law can be practiced in a language other than English. Introduced into the courtroom over a decade ago, Cantonese has significantly altered the everyday working of the common law in China's most Westernized city. In The Common Law in Two Voices, Ng explores how English and Cantonese respectively reinforce and undermine the practice of legal formalism. This first-ever ethnographic study of Hong Kong's unique legal system in the midst of social and political transition, this book provides important insights into the social nature of language and the work of institutions. Ng contends that the dilemma of legal bilingualism in Hong Kong is emblematic of the inherent tensions of postcolonial Hong Kong. Through the legal dramas presented in the book, readers will get a fresh look at the former British colony that is now searching for its identity within a powerful China.
Download or read book The Common Law Procedure Act written by Robert Alexander Harrison and published by Copp, Clark ; London : Stevens & Haynes. This book was released on 1870 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Common Law is Oliver Wendell Holmes' most sustained work of jurisprudence. In it the careful reader will discern traces of his later thought as found in both his legal opinions and other writings. At the outset of The Common Law Holmes posits that he is concerned with establishing that the common law can meet the changing needs of society while preserving continuity with the past. A common law judge must be creative, both in determining society's current needs and in discerning how best to address these needs in a way that is continuous with past judicial decisions. In this way, the law evolves by moving out of its past, adapting to the needs of the present, and establishing a direction for the future. To Holmes' way of thinking, this approach is superior to imposing order in accordance with a philosophical position or theory because the law would thereby lose the flexibility it requires in responding to the needs and demands of disputing parties as well as society as a whole.
Download or read book The Common Law Procedure Acts and other Statutes relating to the practice of the Superior Courts of Common Law and the Rules of Court with notes written by John Charles Frederick Sigismund DAY (Right Hon. Sir.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Common Law Procedure Acts and Other Statutes Relating to the Practice of the Superior Courts of Common Law and the Rules of Court written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Readings on the History and System of the Common Law written by Roscoe Pound and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Common Law Procedure Acts and Other Statutes Relating to the Practice of the Superior Courts of Common Law written by John C. F. S. Day and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Common Law Procedure Acts and Other Statutes Relating to the Practice of the Superior Courts of Common Law: And the Rules of Court; With Notes To his learned friend, Mr. O. B. C. Harrison, the Editor is indebted for the full and convenient Index, which will be found to connect together the various provisions of all the Statutes, Rules of Court, and Cases cited throughout the Book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Common Law Annotated written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated book* It has a historical context with research of the time-The Common Law is a book written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1881, 21 years before Holmes became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. The book is about customary law in the United States, including tort, property, contracts, and crime. It is written as a series of lectures. One of the most famous aphorisms in this book appears on the first page: "The life of the law has not been logical: it has been experience." Holmes's pronouncement is a subtle qualification of an opinion by the famous seventeenth-century English jurist Sir Edward Coke: "Reason is the life of the law." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932, and as President of the Acting Supreme Court of the United States in January - February 1930.Noted for his long service, his concise and concise opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "perilous" opinion clear and present. " for a unanimous court in the case of Schenck v. United States of 1919, and is one of the most influential American common law judges, honored throughout his life in Britain and in the United States.
Download or read book The Common Law Tradition written by Karl N. Llewellyn and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Elizabeth Webster and the Court of Uncommon Pleas written by William Lashner and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Elizabeth Webster's world, where the common laws of middle school torment her days . . . and the uncommon laws of an even weirder realm govern her nights. Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone. But when star swimmer Henry Harrison asks Elizabeth to tutor him in math, it's not linear equations Henry really needs help with-it's a flower-scented, poodle-skirt-wearing, head-tossing ghost who's calling out Elizabeth's name. But why Elizabeth? Could it have something to do with her missing lawyer father? Maybe. Probably. If only she could find him. In her search, Elizabeth discovers more than she is looking for: a grandfather she never knew, a startling legacy, and the secret family law firm, Webster & Son, Attorneys for the Damned. Elizabeth and her friends soon land in court, where demons and ghosts take the witness stand and a red-eyed judge with a ratty white wig hands out sentences like sandwiches. Will Elizabeth's father arrive in time to save Henry Harrison-and is Henry the one who really needs saving? Set in the historic streets of Philadelphia, this riveting middle-grade mystery from New York Times bestselling author William Lashner will have readers banging their gavels and calling for more from the incomparable Elizabeth Webster.
Download or read book The Common Law Procedure Act 1854 17 18 Vict C 125 written by John Thompson (Barrister-at-law) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
