The Common Law / Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, author.

Series:

The John Harvard Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Common law.

Electronic books. -- local.

Law.

Local Subjects:

Common law.

Electronic books. -- local.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

To be supplied : Project Gutenberg, 2010.

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780674264526

0674264525

9780674054011

0674054016

OCLC:

648759654