A Treatise on Obligations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Treatise on Obligations write by Robert Joseph Pothier. This book was released on 1802. A Treatise on Obligations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View
A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View write by Robert Joseph Pothier. This book was released on 1999. A Treatise on Obligations, Considered in a Moral and Legal View available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translated by Francois-Xavier Martin. Originally published: NewBern, N.C.: Martin & Ogden, 1802. 2 vols. in 1 book. xii (iii-xii new introduction), xii], 364; ix], 315, 1] pp. With a new introduction by Warren M. Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans and Bicentennial Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Reprint of the rare New Bern edition. In the decades before the Civil War this classic treatise was required reading for practitioners, scholars and law students. Martin, an attorney and printer in New Bern, North Carolina, later a distinguished lawyer in Louisiana, gained distinction for this translation. This treatise was an important influence on British and American contract law. Marvin quotes and endorses an assessment by Luther Cushing that includes the following remark by one of Pothier's earlier editors, Andr Dupin: " Pothier on Obligations] is not only a good book of law, but an excellent book on morals; a work of all countries, of all nations; a book, to which antiquity can present to rival but the Offices of Cicero." John Gage Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 578. "The Treatise on Obligations was soon recognized as a major contribution to legal science."--David M. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 973. ROBERT JOSEPH POTHIER 1699-1772] was arguably the greatest French jurist of the eighteenth century. A brilliant scholar, he is renowned for his treatises on Roman law and the various branches of French civil law, which were primary sources for the French Civil Code. FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARTIN 1762-1846], a Frenchborn lawyer, judge, author, translator, printer and historian, is an important figure in the legal history of the south. His career began in North Carolina. He later moved to the Louisiana territory, where he played the central role in the reorganization of its legal system. Appointed attorney-general when Louisiana became a state, he is considered the father of Louisiana jurisprudence.
The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties
The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties write by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin. This book was released on 2001. The Courts, the Constitution, and Parties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. McLaughlin, Andrew C. The Courts, The Constitution and Parties. Studies in Constitutional History and Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1912. vii, 299 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 00-058812. ISBN 1-58477-155-0. Cloth. $95. * "This volume is composed of five papers or addresses. Two of them are careful historical discussions of the origin of the American doctrine that courts can declare acts of the legislature void; a third shows the influence of theories of political philosophy upon the ante-bellum controversy regarding the nature of the Union; and the remaining two consider the significance of American political parties and their real function in popular government. The two papers first mentioned seem to be contributions of great and permanent value to the discussion of their topic. The style of all of these essays is easy and delightful and their argument sane, thoughtful, and persuasive." J.P.H. Harv. L. Rev. 26:280-281 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 377.
Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence
Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence write by Paul Vinogradoff. This book was released on 1999. Outlines of Historical Jurisprudence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A complex description and analytical perspective of the growth of jurisprudence from tribal to modern law, beginning with the concept of marital union among tribes and clans and continuing to the "Jurisprudence of the Greek City" in the fourth and fifth centuries.
The Constitutional History of England
The Constitutional History of England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Constitutional History of England write by Frederic William Maitland. This book was released on 2001. The Constitutional History of England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908. xxviii, 547 pp. Although Maitland never intended to publish these lectures, they have long been regarded as one of the best introductions to the English Constitution. Delivered in the winter of 1887 and spring of 1888, and edited and published in 1908 by one of Maitland's students, Herbert A.L. Fisher, they cover the period from 1066 to the end of the nineteenth century. Rather than a narrative historical format, they focus on describing the work of the constitution during five distinct moments in English history: 1307, 1509, 1625, 1702 and 1887. They provide an entry to some of the major concepts he later expounded in his seminal work written with Sir Frederick Pollock, The History of English Law. Widely considered the father of modern legal history, FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND 1850-1906] was an English jurist and historian best known for The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895), written with Sir Frederick Pollock. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and studied at Lincoln's Inn, London. Maitland was called to the bar in1876 and practiced until 1884, when he became a reader in English law (1884) and professor (1888) at Cambridge. He founded the Selden Society in 1887. Hailed for his original outlook on history, his works had a profound influence on legal scholarship and remain important today.
