The Law Of Torts Or Private Wrongs 2-Volume Set

Book Description:

Hilliard, Francis.
The Law of Torts, or Private Wrongs. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1859. Two volumes. xxxviii, 540; xxxvii, 719 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-541-6. ISBN-10: 1-58477-541-6. Cloth. $195.
* Reprint of the first edition. This was the first English-language treatise on the subject. As the Dictionary of American Biography points out, it marked the "beginning of a revolution in legal thought" because it was the first to approach torts as a distinct legal category. Before Hilliard, "practical text-writers...regarded such wrongs as too divergent in nature for unified treatment and merely discussed some distinct wrong" (V:53-54). Hilliard [1806-1878], a Harvard-educated attorney who lived in Boston, was a prolific and distinguished author of treatises on jurisprudence, real property, contracts, business law and other subjects.