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by Michele Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
A family can be torn apart in an instant. Putting it back together is a harder task.
A relapsed addict opens the door to find a cop with a search warrant, setting off a chain of events that will cause four lives to intersect.
Devin Lenox has already lost one child to the system and this...
Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War
The Trials of John Merryman
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
In the spring of 1861, Union military authorities arrested Maryland farmer John Merryman on charges of treason against the United States for burning railroad bridges around Baltimore in an effort to prevent northern soldiers from reaching the capital. From his prison cell at Fort McHenry, Merryman...
Laws of Creation
Property Rights in the World of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems. Ignoring the social value of IP rights and making what others create “free” would be a costly mistake indeed.
Beyond Abortion
Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and politicians used Roe—and popular interpretations...
by J. M. Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This study of the documents used in medieval England for the creation and transfer of interests in real property is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject since the publication of Thomas Madox's Formulare Anglicanum in 1702. The transactions covered include grants in fee and in perpetual...
by Peter Birks
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law. Discovered in complete manuscript form following his death, the lectures are published here in paperback for the first time. The lectures present a clear conceptual...
Natural Law in Court
A History of Legal Theory in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Natural-law theory grounds human laws in universal truths of God’s creation. The task of the judicial system was to build an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. R. H. Helmholz shows how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in the West, and concludes that historically it has advanced the cause of justice.
Thinking about Statutes
Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
We are in the age of statutes; and it is indisputable that statutes are swallowing up the common law. Yet the study of statutes as a coherent whole is rare. In these three lectures, given as the 2017 Hamlyn Lecture series, Professor Andrew Burrows takes on the challenge of thinking seriously and at...
by Claire De Than
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
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Foundations of Private Law
Property, Tort, Contract, Unjust Enrichment
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Foundations of Private Law is a treatise on the Western law of property, contract, tort and unjust enrichment in both common law systems and civil law systems. The thesis of the book is that underlying these fields of law are common principles, and that these principles can be used to explain the...
Law, Land, and Family
Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Eileen Spring presents a fresh interpretation of the history of inheritance among the English gentry and aristocracy. In a work that recasts both the history of real property law and the history of the family, she finds that one of the principal and determinative features of upper-class real property...
by Anthony Arlidge, Lord Igor Judge
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta.The story of how Magna Carta came into being ,and has been interpreted since, and its impact on individual rights and constitutional developments has more twists and turns than any work of historical fiction.
The authors bring...
Hopes for Better Spouses
Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Modern Protestant debates about spousal relations and the meaning of marriage began in a forgotten international dispute some 300 years ago. The Lutheran-Pietist ideal of marriage as friendship and mutual pursuit of holiness battled with the idea that submission defined spousal roles.
Exploiting...
The Body of Property
Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with...