Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Common Law written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It adopts an approach which explains the historical development of the common law institutions and procedures whilst also setting them in perspective through a comparative outlook. Aspects of the common law are contrasted on occasions with structural o

Download or read book Statutory and Common Law Interpretation written by Kent Greenawalt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent Greenwalt's second volume on aspects of legal interpretation analyzes statutory and common law interpretation, suggesting that multiple factors are important for each, and that the relation between them influences both. The book argues against any simple "textualism," claiming that even reader understanding of statutes depends partly on perceived intent. In respect to common law interpretation, use of reasoning by analogy is defended and any simple dichotomy of "holding" and "dictum" is resisted.

Download or read book The Language of Common Law Made Simple written by Girolamo Tessuto and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Concise History of the Common Law written by Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Download or read book Law written by D. L. A. Barker and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law: Made Simple, 8TH Edition focuses on the history, elements, and interpretation of English law. The publication first elaborates on the historical and legal sources of English law and courts. Discussions cover juries, arbitration, civil, criminal, and other courts, administrative tribunals, legislation, textbooks, local custom, equity, and canon law. The book then takes a look at the judiciary, law officers, and the legal profession, outline of the law of persons, and law of contract. Topics include discharge of contract, remedies for a breach of contract, interpretation of a contract, classification of contracts, essentials of a valid contract, marriage, divorce, corporations, adoption, legitimation, guardianship, solicitors, and barristers. The manuscript examines criminal law, law of succession, law of property, and trusts. Concerns include differences between private and charitable trusts, appointment of trustees, duties and powers of trustees, settlements and trusts for sale, personal representatives, and criminal liability. The text is a valuable source of information for legal experts and researchers interested in English law.

Download or read book A Rubric of the Common Law written by Charles George Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) is generally considered one of the greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court. In more than 2,000 opinions, Holmes delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. In THE COMMON LAW, the ideas and judicial theory of Holmes can be studied and appreciated.

Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Common Law' is a book that was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21 years before Holmes became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The book is about common law in the United States, including torts, property, contracts, and crime. It is written as a series of lectures. One of the most famous aphorisms to be drawn from this book occurs on the first page: "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only paperback edition of great legal classic. Lucid, accessible coverage of liability, criminal law, torts, contracts, more, from historical perspective. New introduction by Sheldon M. Novick. Table of Cases.

Download or read book The Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Genius of the Common Law written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Annotated Common Law written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and published by Quid Pro Books. This book was released on 2011-06-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decoded, demythed rendition of Holmes' classic study of law and judicial development of rules. "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." Includes 2010 Foreword; extensive, clear annotations by a Tulane law professor woven into The Common Law; footnotes with real numbers; and original page cites. Care in detail, proofreading, notes, and formatting, unlike any version made. As lamented by Holmes' premier biographer in 2006, The Common Law "is very likely the best-known book ever written about American law. But it is a difficult, sometimes obscure book, which today's lawyers and law students find largely inaccessible." No longer. With insertions and simple definitions of the original's language and concepts, this version makes it live for college students (able to "get it," at last, with legal terms explained), plus law students, lawyers, and anyone wanting to understand his great book. No previous edition, even in print, has offered annotations. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. compiled his master work in 1881 from lectures on the origins, reasoning, and import of the common law. It jump-started legal Realism and established law as a pragmatic way to solve problems and make policy, not just a bucket of rules. It has stood the test of time as one of the most important and influential studies of law. This book is interesting for a vast audience, including historians, students, and political scientists. It is also a recommended read before law school or in the 1L year. High quality, fully linked ePub edition from Quid Pro's Legal Legends Series.

Download or read book Priests of the Law written by Thomas J. McSweeney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as legal professionals. In the middle decades of the thirteenth century, a group of justices working in the English royal courts spent a great deal of time thinking and writing about what it meant to be a person who worked in the law courts. This book examines the justices who wrote the treatise known as Bracton. Written and re-written between the 1220s and the 1260s, Bracton is considered one of the great treatises of the early common law and is still occasionally cited by judges and lawyers when they want to make the case that a particular rule goes back to the beginning of the common law. This book looks to Bracton less for what it can tell us about the law of the thirteenth century, however, than for what it can tell us about the judges who wrote it. The judges who wrote Bracton - Martin of Pattishall, William of Raleigh, and Henry of Bratton - were some of the first people to work full-time in England's royal courts, at a time when there was no recourse to an obvious model for the legal professional. They found one in an unexpected place: they sought to clothe themselves in the authority and prestige of the scholarly Roman-law tradition that was sweeping across Europe in the thirteenth century, modelling themselves on the jurists of Roman law who were teaching in European universities. In Bracton and other texts they produced, the justices of the royal courts worked hard to ensure that the nascent common-law tradition grew from Roman Law. Through their writing, this small group of people, working in the courts of an island realm, imagined themselves to be part of a broader European legal culture. They made the case that they were not merely servants of the king: they were priests of the law.

Download or read book Common Law and Natural Law in America written by Andrew Forsyth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law's varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.

Download or read book A First Book of Jurisprudence for Students of the Common Law written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Download or read book Common Law Primer written by Larry McClurg and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Common law is the unwritten law, the will of mankind issuing from the life of the people. It existed long before the state or federal government or the Constitution. The law is cause no harm or loss to another man. It is so simple children can comprehend it. Do no harm, injury, or damage to life, liberty, or property of another is the only man made law binding on all.The only law mentioned in the Constitution for the United States of America is common law. Common law works the same in any common law country when it is based on Magna Carta and the Common Law of the people of England. The purpose of my book is to educate Americans on their common law heritage as it stands today.All of our courts are courts of record. A court of record doesn't simply mean the court is recording what you say, although that is what the legal system would sometimes have you believe. What it really means is that the court proceeds at common law without statutes or codes. Then why do courts seem to use statutes and codes? Courts designated as courts of record may act as statutory courts unless a party to a case objects. But who knew you can object to the court using statutes?The authority of a court of record at the common law comes from unalienable fundamental rights and may not be submitted to vote, and is not dependent on the Constitution or the outcome of elections. Courts of record proceed according to the course of the common law, without the aid of a statute or code. [Corpus Juris Secundum vol 25 section 344 ].Inferior courts are any courts that use statutes or codes. "Inferior courts" are those whose jurisdiction is limited and special and whose proceedings are not according to the course of the common law." [cf. Ex Parte Kearny, 55 Cal. 212; Smith v. Andrews, 6 Cal. 652]. Inferior criminal legislative and civil administrative courts may be sued directly, collaterally by a court of record at common law review without appealing, thus voiding inferior orders and judgments [c.f. Corpus Juris Vol XVII § § 3265-3268 (1919)].The "judge" has no discretion in a court of record at common law, and can only do ministerial functions, such as signing your orders. No judgment of a court of record can be appealed to the Supreme Court or an inferior court except by the rules of common law. There is no higher court. "The judgment of a court of record whose jurisdiction is final is as conclusive on all the world as the judgment of this Court would be. It is as conclusive on this Court as on other courts. It puts an end to inquiry concerning the fact by deciding it." - Chief Justice Marshall. Ex Parte Watkins, 28 U.S. 3 Pet. 193 (1830)."It is not possible to move a single step in any judicial or legislative proceeding, or to execute any part of our statutes, or of our constitution, without having recourse to the common law." [cf. 8 U.S. 75 (1807)].Constitutions can never establish Common Law, for then all Power would not be in the People, but would be in the Constitution which is only a piece of paper, and the People's right to redress grievances or to amend, change, or address any problem could not be. Governments are mere pieces of paper to be altered and changed to the whim of the living souls. Corporations are mere pieces of paper that government can change and alter at its whim.