Dimensions of private law : categories and concepts in Anglo-American legal reasoning / Stephen Waddams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waddams, S. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil law--Great Britain.

Civil law.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anglo-American private law (the law governing mutual rights and obligations of individuals) has been a far more complex phenomenon than is usually recognized. Attempts to reduce it to a single explanatory principle, or to a precisely classified or categorized map, scheme, or diagram, are likely to distort the past by omitting or marginalizing material inconsistent with proposed principles or schemes. Many legal issues cannot be allocated exclusively to one category. Often several concepts have worked concurrently and cumulatively, so that competing explanations and categories are not so much alternatives, of which only one can be correct, as different dimensions of a complex phenomenon, of which several may be simultaneously valid and necessary. This 2003 study will be of importance to those interested in property, tort, contract, unjust enrichment, legal reasoning, legal method, the history of the common law, and the relation between legal theory and legal history.

Contents:

1. Introduction: the mapping of legal concepts

2. Johanna Wagner and the rival opera houses

3. Liability for economic harms

4. Reliance

5. Liability for physical harms

6. Profits derived from wrongs

7. Domestic obligations

8. Interrelation of obligations

9. Property and obligation

10. Public interest and private right

11. Conclusion: the concept of legal mapping.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-239) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13441-2

1-280-42004-9

0-511-17892-1

0-511-06519-1

0-511-20299-7

0-511-30607-5

0-511-49556-0

0-511-07365-8

OCLC:

57509763