Leading Cases in the Common Law
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 19 September 1996
- ISBN 9780198262992
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages324 pages
- Size 234x154x26 mm
- Weight 566 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 pp halftones 0
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Short description:
This book offers a collection of essays by arguably the most popular legal historian writing today. Most of the essays have not been previously published, and those which have appeared previously have been re-written to make the collection read more coherently. The collection is centred upon the theme of the leading case - a case where the judgment has established a long-lasting or far-reaching precedent in Common Law, and the author has selected a number of these cases in order to illustrate how the precedents established by the cases had little or nothing to do with the trials themselves.
MoreLong description:
This book offers a collection of essays by arguably the most popular legal historian writing today. Most of the essays have not been previously published, and those which have appeared previously have been re-written to make the collection read more coherently. The collection is centred upon the theme of the leading case - a case where the judgment has established a long-lasting or far reaching precedent in common law, and the author has selected a number of these cases in order to illustrate how the precedents established by the cases have little or nothing to do with the trials themselves.
engaging and profoundly subversive book...If there is a more painstaking and ingenious researcher of local knowledge, a shrewder and more avid excavator of miscellanies, than Brian Simpson, I have never run across him: Simpson seems to have dug up pretty nearly everything that seems even remotely relevant to understanding his cases, and a great deal more besides. Indeed, so overwhelming is the mass of contextual detail that the reader is rescued from psychic inundation only by the inherent fascination of much of the background and Simpson's seductive charm as a storyteller. This is a very funny book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Study of Cases
Politics and Law in Elizabethan England: Shelley's Case
The Timeless Principles of Common Law: Keeble V. Hickeringill (1707)
Legal Science and Legal Absurdity: Jee v. Audley
The Beauty of Obscurity Raffles v. Wickelhaus and Busch
Victorian Judges and the Problems of Social Cost: Tipping v. St Helen's Smelting Company (1865)
Bursting Reservoirs and Victorian Tort Law: Rylands and Horrocks v. Fletcher (1868)
The Ideal of the Rule of Law: Regina v. Keyn (1876)
Quackery and Contract Law: Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (1893)
