Author: O. W., Jr. Holmes
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: law, common
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 2004-11
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 1584774991
ISBN-13: 9781584774990

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881. xvi, 422 pp. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-499-1. Cloth. * This landmark work, which, according to Winfield, "blew fresh air into lawyer’s minds encrusted with Blackstone and Kent," was a decisive influence on sociological jurisprudence, legal realism and the general development of American law in the twentieth century. Winfield, Chief Sources of Anglo-American Law 38. Rejecting the reigning positivist ethos of the nineteenth century, Holmes [1841- 1935] proposed t

Authors:William Searle Holdsworth, Arthur L. Goodhart, Harol
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: history, law, essays
Number of Pages: 302
Published: 1995-04-30
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1886363137
ISBN-13: 9781886363137

Holdsworth, William S. Essays in Law and History. Edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. xv, 302 pp. Reprinted 1995 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-047234. ISBN 1-886363-13-7. Cloth. $65. This volume collects seventeen essays the great legal scholar wrote over the course of his very prolific career. Topics chosen include martial law, the English constitution, case law, equity, trusts, libel, law reporting in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, contract and land law, among others. "The constitutional historian, the international lawyer, the

Authors:Gaius, Domitius Ulpianus,
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Keywords: ulpian, rules, gaius, commentaries
Number of Pages: 501
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1584775483
ISBN-13: 9781584775485

Abdy, J.T. and Bryan Walker. The Commentaries of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian. Translated with Notes by J.T. Abdy and Bryan Walker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1885. xxvi, 501 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-548-5. ISBN-10: 1-58477-548-3. Cloth. $95.* In Latin with a parallel English translation. The Gaii Institutionum Juris Civilis Commentarii Quatuor, or Institutes of Gaius, was compiled around 161 CE. It is a deeply influential elementary textbook on Roman private law. Well-arranged and clearly written, it was the standard textbook for the next 3

Author: Andrew C. McLaughlin
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd
Keywords: constitutionalism, american, foundations
Published: 2002-12
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1584772271
ISBN-13: 9781584772279

McLaughlin, Andrew C. The Foundations of American Constitutionalism. New York: The New York University Press, 1932. vii, 176 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-227-1. Cloth. $65. An historian with a legal background, McLaughlin [1861-1947] traces the principles of justice embodied by the United States Constitution to the influence of colonial New England political philosophy and Puritan practices and ideals of personal rights and limited government. A reprint of the Anson G. Phelps Lectures on Early American History delivered at New York University in 1932.

Author: Robert T. Swaine
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: predecessors, firm, cravath
Published: 2007-03-09
List price: $395.00
ISBN-10: 1584777133
ISBN-13: 9781584777137

Swaine, Robert T. The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors, 1819-[1948]. New York: Privately Printed at Ad Press, Ltd., 1946-1948. 3 Volumes. Illustrations, portrait plates. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-713-7. ISBN-10: 1-58477-713-3. Cloth. $395. * Reprint of the sole edition. Volume I: The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors 1819-1906; Volume II: The Cravath Firm Since 1906; Volume III: The Cravath Associates; (With Photographs of the Cravath Partners). Cravath, Swaine and Moore, as it is known today, one of the most prestigious law firms in

Author: Sir William Holdsworth
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd
Keywords: law, land, introduction, historical
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2004-03
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 158477262X
ISBN-13: 9781584772620

Holdsworth, Sir William. An Historical Introduction to the Land Law. London: Oxford University Press, 1927. xxiv, 339 pp. Reprint available January 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. * Sir William Holdsworth [1871-1944] was one of the most distinguished historians of English common law. Written to provide students of Real Property with a concise history of the field, Holdsworth believed this knowledge necessary as contemporary land law was difficult to understand without an understanding of its roots. Fifoot commends this book in his English Law and its Background for its history of the r

Author: Philip J. Schwarz
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Keywords: laws, virginia, criminal, amp, condemned, slaves, twice
Number of Pages: 353
Published: 1998-05
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1886363544
ISBN-13: 9781886363540

Schwarz, Philip J. Twice Condemned: Slaves and the Criminal Laws of Virginia, 1705-1865. [Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press]. [1988]. xvi, 354pp. Reprinted 1998 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 98-4424 ISBN 1-886363-54-4. Cloth. $75. Analyzes the history of enslaved African Americans’ relationship with the criminal courts of the Old Dominion during a 160 year period. Before Twice Condemned was first published in 1988, historians often focused primarily on isolated or dramatic examples of the sometimes deadly conflict present in societies based on slave labor. But Twice