TY - BOOK AU - Simpson,A.W.Brian TI - Leading cases in the common law SN - 0198258526 AV - KD671 .S56 1995 PY - 1995/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press KW - Common law KW - Great Britain KW - Cases KW - United States KW - fast KW - gnd KW - gtt KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Jurisprudence KW - ram KW - law KW - legislation KW - history KW - Interdisciplinary Branches of Law KW - Trials, litigation, etc KW - Jurisprudence (form) KW - Commentaries (form) N1 - 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) UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/95005089-t.html UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07932 UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/95005089-d.html ER -