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Leading cases in the common law / A.W. Brian Simpson.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0198258526
  • 9780198258520
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • KD671 .S56 1995
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Contents:
1. The study of cases -- 2. Politics and law in Elizabethan England: Shelley's Case (1581) -- 3. The timeless principles of the common law: Keeble v. Hickeringill (1707) -- 4. Legal science and legal absurdity: Jee v. Audley (1787) -- 5. A case of first impression: Priestley v. Fowler (1837) -- 6. The beauty of obscurity: Raffles v. Wichelhaus and Busch (1864) -- 7. Victorian judges and the problem of social cost: Tipping v. St. Helen's Smelting Company (1865) -- 8. Bursting reservoirs and Victorian tort law: Rylands and Horrocks v. Fletcher (1868) -- 9. The ideal of the rule of law: Regina v. Keyn (1876) -- 10. Quackery and contract law: Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (1893).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index.

1. The study of cases -- 2. Politics and law in Elizabethan England: Shelley's Case (1581) -- 3. The timeless principles of the common law: Keeble v. Hickeringill (1707) -- 4. Legal science and legal absurdity: Jee v. Audley (1787) -- 5. A case of first impression: Priestley v. Fowler (1837) -- 6. The beauty of obscurity: Raffles v. Wichelhaus and Busch (1864) -- 7. Victorian judges and the problem of social cost: Tipping v. St. Helen's Smelting Company (1865) -- 8. Bursting reservoirs and Victorian tort law: Rylands and Horrocks v. Fletcher (1868) -- 9. The ideal of the rule of law: Regina v. Keyn (1876) -- 10. Quackery and contract law: Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (1893).

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