The Common Law /

The Common Law / / Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
VerfasserIn:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
MitwirkendeR:
White, G. Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:The John Harvard Library
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 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

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