LEADING CASES IN THE COMMON LAW by A. W. Brian Simpson ( 9780198262992 )

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LEADING CASES IN THE COMMON LAW

By:

A. W. Brian Simpson

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 September, 1996

Pages:

324

Description:

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 thesecases in order to illustrate how the precedents established by the cases had little or nothing to do with the trials themselves.

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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.

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8 pp halftones

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Clarendon Press

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