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Simpson, A. W. Brian.

Leading cases in the common law / A.W. Brian Simpson. - Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995. - xii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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).

ISBN: 0198258526 9780198258520

LCCN: 95005089

Nat. Bib. No.: GB9581831 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Common law--Great Britain--Cases.
Common law--United States--Cases.
Common law.
Common law
Common law.
Common law--Jurisprudence.--Grande-Bretagne

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain.
United States.

Subjects--Index Terms: Common law. Great Britain. United States. law legislation history Interdisciplinary Branches of Law

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Trials, litigation, etc.
Jurisprudence (form)
Commentaries (form)

LC Class. No.: KD671 / .S56 1995