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  • The Genius of the Common Law

    The Genius of the Common law [1912], Sir Frederick Pollock The Genius of the Common law (New York: Columbia University Press, 1912). Chapters of the book in this Encyclopedia: Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2 Common law. The Giants and the Gods Common law. The Giants…

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Common Law

    Introduction to Common Law "Common Law, term used to refer to the main body of English unwritten law that evolved from the 12th century onward. The name comes from the idea that English medieval law, as administered by the courts of the realm, reflected the "common"customs of […]

  • Comparative Law

    Comparative law may be defined as the study of the similarities and differences between the laws or legal rules of two or more countries, or between two or more legal systems (i.e. the study of legal systems and laws in different countries). It is not a body of rules and principle. It is a […]

  • Nature of Law

    Nature of Law The Nature of Law and Legal Systems This section covers: Interpretivist Theories of Law Legal Positivism Natural Law Theory Legal Realism Mixed Theories of Law Books and Papers Josep Aguiló Regla (1990). Lenguaje jurídico, lenguaje documental y tesauro. Theoria 5 (1-2):31-65. The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand,…

  • Nature of Law

    Nature of Law The Nature of Law and Legal Systems This section covers: Interpretivist Theories of Law Legal Positivism Natural Law Theory Legal Realism Mixed Theories of Law Books and Papers Josep Aguiló Regla (1990). Lenguaje jurídico, lenguaje documental y tesauro. Theoria 5 (1-2):31-65. The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand,…

  • Bouvie’s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law

    Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and Institutes of American Law Review of Bouvier’s Law Dictionary and “Institutes of American Law” This review was written in “North American Review”(July, 1861) by S. Austin Allibone, author of “the Dictionary of Authors” The author of these volumes taught lawyers by his books, but he taught all men by his example,…

  • About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical

    About the Origins and Sources of International Law, Historical The eminent man who founded the Whewell Professorship of International Law laid an earnest and express injunction on the occupant of this chair that he should make it his aim, in all parts of his treatment of the subject, to lay down such rules and suggest…

  • The American and English Encyclopedia of Law

    The American and English Encyclopedia of Law The “Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice, Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common law , in Equity and in Criminal Cases”was a Companion work of this Encyclopedia of Law. Edition of 1887 The edtors of the American and English encyclopedia of law, 1887 Edition, were: John Houston…

  • The American and English Encyclopedia of Law

    The American and English Encyclopedia of Law The “Encyclopedia of Pleading and Practice, Under the Codes and Practice Acts, at Common law , in Equity and in Criminal Cases”was a Companion work of this Encyclopedia of Law. Edition of 1887 The edtors of the American and English encyclopedia of law, 1887 Edition, were: John Houston…

  • Law Classical books

    Law Classical books •Sir Henry Sumner Maine, Ancient Law, its connection with the early history of society and its relation to modern ideas •Rev. Claude Hermann Walter Johns, Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters •Harriet Taylor, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI – Essays on Equality, Law, and Education (Subjection of…

  • Common law. The Giants and the Gods 2

    Common law. The Giants and the Gods 2 See Common law. The Giants and the Gods From Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] Such were the strange guardians among whom our lady the Common law was born and cradled. For they were true guardians in their day. Caprice, even well meant…

  • Common law. The Giants and the Gods

    Common law . The Giants and the Gods See Common law. The Giants and the Gods 2 From Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] At this day there is no need to explain that formality is an essential feature of archaic law. It has long ceased to be plausible, if it…

  • Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2

    Common law . Our Lady and Her Knights 2 Continue from Common law . Our Lady and Her Knights 2 From the book of Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] We must begin, however, at the beginning. It is easy to say that the law of our modern courts, for most…

  • Common Law: Our lady and her Knights

    Common law : Our lady and her Knights From: Sir Frederick Pollock, The Genius of the Common Law [1912] See Common law. Our Lady and Her Knights 2 More than seven years have passed since I was invited to speak here in the name of our Common law . The renewal of such an invitation…