The Nature of the Common Law

The Nature of the Common Law PDF

Author: Melvin Aron Eisenberg

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1991-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780674604810

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Common law rules predominate in some areas of law, such as torts and contracts, and are extremely important in other areas, such as corporations. Nevertheless, it has been unclear what principles courts use—or should use—in establishing common law rules. In this lucid book, Melvin Eisenberg develops the principles that govern this process.

A Common Law for the Age of Statutes

A Common Law for the Age of Statutes PDF

Author: Guido Calabresi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0674029151

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The dominance of legislatures and statutory law has put an impossible burden on the courts. Guido Calabresi thinks it is time for this country seriously to consider returning to a traditional American judicial–legislative balance in which courts would enlarge the common law and would also decide when a rule of law has seen its day and should be revised.

Law and the Economy in Colonial India

Law and the Economy in Colonial India PDF

Author: Tirthankar Roy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 022638764X

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By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial Indiawhich were influenced heavily by both British Common Law and indigenous Indian practices and traditionsLaw and the Economy in Colonial India sheds new light on what exactly fosters the types of institutions that have been key to economic development throughout world history more generally. The culmination and years of research, the book goes through a range of examples, including textiles, opium, tea, indigo, tenancy, credit, and land mortgage, to show how economic laws in colonial India were shaped neither by imported European ideas about how colonies should be ruled nor indigenous institutions, but by the practice of producing and trading. The book is an essential addition to Indian history and to some of the most fundamental questions in economic history."

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