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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825922603321

Autore

Holmes Oliver Wendell

Titolo

The Common Law / / Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

To be supplied, : Project Gutenberg, 2010

Cambridge, MA : , : Harvard University Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-674-26452-5

0-674-05401-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Collana

The John Harvard Library

Classificazione

LAW000000POL000000

Disciplina

340.5/7

Soggetti

Common law

Electronic books. -- local

Law

Law, Politics & Government

Law, General & Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / White, G. Edward -- Note on the Text -- Chronology of Oliver Wendell Holmes's Life -- Preface -- Lecture I. Early Forms of Liability -- Lecture II. The Criminal Law -- Lecture III. Torts: Trespass and Negligence -- Lecture IV. Fraud, Malice, and Intent: The Theory of Torts -- Lecture V. The Bailee at Common Law -- Lecture VI. Possession -- Lecture VII. Contract: I. History -- Lecture VIII. Contract: II. Elements -- Lecture IX. Contract: III. Void and Voidable -- Lecture X. Successions: I. After Death II. Inter Vivos -- Lecture XI. Successions: II. Inter Vivos -- Selected Bibliography -- Glossary of Legal Terms -- Table of Cases -- Year Books and Early Cases -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Much more than an historical examination of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, and contracts, The Common Law articulates the ideas and judicial theory of one of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court. The John Harvard Library presents a text that is, with occasional corrections of typographical errors, identical to that



found in the first and all subsequent printings by Little, Brown.