Dimensions of Private Law: Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Legal Reasoning

by Stephen Waddams

Overview

Anglo-American private law has been a far more complex phenomenon than has been usually recognized. Attempts to reduce it to a single explanatory principle, or to a precisely classified or categorized map, scheme, or diagram, are liable to distort the past by omitting or marginalizing material inconsistent with proposed principles or schemes. This study will be of importance to all who are 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521816434
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	07/10/2003
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.91(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: the mapping of legal concepts; 2. Johanna Wagner and the Rival Opera Houses; 3. Economic harms; 4. Reliance; 5. Liability for physical harms; 6. Profits derived from wrongs; 7. Domestic obligations; 8. Inter-relation of obligations; 9. Property and obligation; 10. Public interest and private right; 11. Conclusion: the concept of legal mapping.

Editorial Reviews

'… a work of fine scholarship that demonstrates detailed knowledge of a wide range of historical sources and offers many illuminating insights.' Ken Oliphant, Cardiff University

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