Author: James Kent
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: William Blackstone
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022616294X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769) stands as the first great effort to reduce the English common law to a unified and rational system. Blackstone demonstrated that the English law as a system of justice was comparable to Roman law and the civil law of the Continent. Clearly and elegantly written, the work achieved immediate renown and exerted a powerful influence on legal education in England and in America which was to last into the late nineteenth century. The book is regarded not only as a legal classic but as a literary masterpiece. Previously available only in an expensive hardcover set, Commentaries on the Laws of England is published here in four separate volumes, each one affordably priced in a paperback edition. These works are facsimiles of the eighteenth-century first edition and are undistorted by later interpolations. Each volume deals with a particular field of law and carries with it an introduction by a leading contemporary scholar. Introducing this second volume, Of the Rights of Things, A. W. Brian Simpson discusses the history of Blackstone's theory of various aspects of property rights—real property, feudalism, estates, titles, personal property, and contracts—and the work of his predecessors.

Author: John P. Beal
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 0809105020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1985

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An entirely new and comprehensive commentary by canon lawyers from North America and Europe, with a revised English translation of the code. Reflects the enormous developments in canon law since the publication of the original commentary. +

Author: George Washington Thompson
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Author: Nils Jansen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508016
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 3650

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The book provides rule-by-rule commentaries on European contract law (general contract law, consumer contract law, the law of sale and related services), dealing with its modern manifestations as well as its historical and comparative foundations. After the collapse of the European Commission's plans to codify European contract law it is timely to reflect on what has been achieved over the past three to four decades, and for an assessment of the current situation. In particular, the production of a bewildering number of reference texts has contributed to a complex picture of European contract laws rather than a European contract law. The present book adopts a broad perspective and an integrative approach. All relevant reference texts (from the CISG to the Draft Common European Sales Law) are critically examined and compared with each other. As far as the acquis commun (ie the traditional private law as laid down in the national codifications) is concerned, the Principles of European Contract Law have been chosen as a point of departure. The rules contained in that document have, however, been complemented with some chapters, sections, and individual provisions drawn from other sources, primarily in order to account for the quickly growing acquis communautaire in the field of consumer contract law. In addition, the book ties the discussion concerning the reference texts back to the pertinent historical and comparative background; and it thus investigates whether, and to what extent, these texts can be taken to be genuinely European in nature, ie to constitute a manifestation of a common core of European contract law. Where this is not the case, the question is asked whether, and for what reasons, they should be seen as points of departure for the further development of European contract law.

Author: George Washington Thompson
Publisher:
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Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: George Washington Thompson
Publisher:
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Category : Forms (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: John Tobin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191544175
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1600

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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most extensive and widely ratified international human rights treaty. This Commentary offers a comprehensive analysis of each of the substantive provisions in the Convention and its Optional Protocols on Children and Armed Conflict and the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Pornography. It offers a detailed insight into the drafting history of these instruments, the scope and nature of the rights accorded to children and the obligations imposed on states to secure the implementation of these rights. In doing so, it draws on the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, international, regional and domestic courts, academic and interdisciplinary scholarly analyses. It is of relevance to anyone working on matters affecting children including government officials, policy makers, judicial officers, lawyers, educators, social workers, health professionals, academics, aid and humanitarian workers, and members of civil society.

Author: Eugene Allen Gilmore
Publisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781343553644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 966

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Author: Eugene Allen Gilmore
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527723979
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 886

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Excerpt from Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the Fundamental Principles of American Law and Procedure, Accompanied by Leading Illustrative Cases and Legal Forms, With a Revised Edition of Blackstone's Commentaries The attention of citizens generally is being at tracted to a reform of our penal institutions. Some progress in that direction has been made by legisla tion and some by improvements in state institutions. Thus many of our offenders are now treated as pa tients for the surgeon or physician rather than as criminals to be confined in penitentiaries. Public spirited bodies are also investigating the causes of crime and are seeking to find ways and means for its prevention. Success in reducing the number of criminal ofiend ers rests largely upon a reform in the administration of criminal law and criminal procedure as enforced in the courts today. In turn, a knowledge of the basic principles of these branches of the law is the first essential to reform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.