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
The Public Conscience Social Judgments In Statute And Common Law
This book explains the following topics: Preservation of Life and Limb, Some Excerpts From History, Crimes Against the Person, International Wrong Always Condemned, Frauds, Victims Deceived, Attack Upon Rights of Property in Personality, Rights as Between Two Parties, Preservation of Security, Security in Preservation of Property, Interference With Freedom of Movement.
Author(s): George Clarke Cox
NA Pages
The essence of English common law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts, applying legal precedent to the facts before them. A decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest civil appeal court of the United Kingdom, is binding on every other court. Topics covered includes: Torts, Crimes, Contracts, The Law Of Persons, Adjective Law.
Author(s): William Blake Odgers, William Walter Odgersr and Herbert Broom
NA 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 Inheritance of the Common Law
This volume in the Hamlyn Lecture series covers the concept of Man in the common Law, the Family, the political community and the law and conscience.
Author(s): Richard O'Sullivan
136 Pages
