Qualified and Absolute Immunity at Common Law
This PDF covers topics related to Common Law and is a article that provides the first comprehensive review of the common law on state-officer immunities around 1871. In particular, it canvasses the four nineteenth century treatises that the Supreme Court consults in assessing officer immunities under the common law of 1871: Cooley’s 1879 Law of Torts, Bishop’s 1889 Commentaries on Non-contract Law, Mechem’s 1890 Law of Public Offices and Officers, and Throop’s 1892 Law Relating to Public Officers. Not only do these treatises collect many overlooked state common law precedents, but they rely heavily on the Supreme Court’s own, often ignored, nineteenth-century decisions.
Author(s): Scott A. Keller, Stanford Law Review
64 Pages
This note covers the following topics: Common law as opposed to statutory law and regulatory law, Common law legal systems as opposed to civil law legal systems, principles of common law, Medieval English common law, Influence of Roman law, Alternatives to common law systems, Common law legal systems in the present day, Common law national legal systems today, Early common law systems, Stages of common law trials.
Author(s): Wikipedia.org
NA Pages
A treatise on the law of certiorari at common law and under the statutes
This book includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.
Author(s): George E. Harris
NA Pages
Traditional Rights and FreedomsEncroachments by Commonwealth Laws
This book covers the following topics: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Movement, Property Rights, Retrospective Laws, Fair Trial, Burden of Proof, The Privilege against Self-incrimination, Client Legal Privilege, Strict or Absolute Liability, Appeal from Acquittal, Procedural Fairness, Delegating Legislative Power, Authorising what would otherwise be a Tort, Executive Immunities, Judicial Review, Freedoms and Privilege.
Author(s): Australian Law Reform Commission
130 Pages
Lucid, accessible coverage, from a historical perspective, of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, many other aspects of civil and criminal law. Indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, interested general readers.
Author(s): Oliver Wendell Holmes
257 Pages
The Unity of the Common LawStudies in Hegelian Jurisprudence
Countering the influential view of Critical Legal Studies that law is an incoherent mixture of conflicting political ideologies, this book forges a new paradigm for understanding the common law as being unified and systematic. Alan Brudner applies Hegel's legal and moral philosophy to fashion a comprehensive synthesis of the common law of property, contract, tort, and crime.
Author(s): Alan Brudner
347 Pages
