Qualified and Absolute Immunity at Common Law
This PDF covers topics related to Common Law and is a article that provides the first comprehensive review of the common law on state-officer immunities around 1871. In particular, it canvasses the four nineteenth century treatises that the Supreme Court consults in assessing officer immunities under the common law of 1871: Cooley’s 1879 Law of Torts, Bishop’s 1889 Commentaries on Non-contract Law, Mechem’s 1890 Law of Public Offices and Officers, and Throop’s 1892 Law Relating to Public Officers. Not only do these treatises collect many overlooked state common law precedents, but they rely heavily on the Supreme Court’s own, often ignored, nineteenth-century decisions.
Author(s): Scott A. Keller, Stanford Law Review
64 Pages
A treatise on the law of certiorari at common law and under the statutes
This book includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.
Author(s): George E. Harris
NA Pages
The Public Conscience Social Judgments In Statute And Common Law
This book explains the following topics: Preservation of Life and Limb, Some Excerpts From History, Crimes Against the Person, International Wrong Always Condemned, Frauds, Victims Deceived, Attack Upon Rights of Property in Personality, Rights as Between Two Parties, Preservation of Security, Security in Preservation of Property, Interference With Freedom of Movement.
Author(s): George Clarke Cox
NA Pages
The essence of English common law is that it is made by judges sitting in courts, applying legal precedent to the facts before them. A decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the highest civil appeal court of the United Kingdom, is binding on every other court. Topics covered includes: Torts, Crimes, Contracts, The Law Of Persons, Adjective Law.
Author(s): William Blake Odgers, William Walter Odgersr and Herbert Broom
NA Pages
Traditional Rights and FreedomsEncroachments by Commonwealth Laws
This book covers the following topics: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Movement, Property Rights, Retrospective Laws, Fair Trial, Burden of Proof, The Privilege against Self-incrimination, Client Legal Privilege, Strict or Absolute Liability, Appeal from Acquittal, Procedural Fairness, Delegating Legislative Power, Authorising what would otherwise be a Tort, Executive Immunities, Judicial Review, Freedoms and Privilege.
Author(s): Australian Law Reform Commission
130 Pages
The Inheritance of the Common Law
This volume in the Hamlyn Lecture series covers the concept of Man in the common Law, the Family, the political community and the law and conscience.
Author(s): Richard O'Sullivan
136 Pages
