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A.W.B. Simpson
ISBN: 9780198262992
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: New edition
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A collection of cases in common law, centred upon the theme of the judgment establishing a long-lasting or far-reaching precedent. The cases were selected in order to illustrate how the precedents established had little or nothing to do with the trials themselves.
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.
| ISBN | 019826299X | | Pages | 324 | | ISBN13 | 9780198262992
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 566 | | Imprint | Clarendon Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 19 Sep 1996 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 344.1009 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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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)
"Case histories are engagingly written. Accessible and enjoyable; recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above."--Choice  Be the first to write a customer review
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