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Books on: american common law

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Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa

Book by Reinhard Zimmermann, Daniel Visser; Clarendon Press, 1996

Subjects:

Common Law--South Africa--History, Roman-Dutch Law--South Africa--History

Collections: Entire Library

This work provides a history of the main institutions of South African private law, as well as exploring the process through which the integration of English common law and continental civil law was achieved in that jurisdiction. It is a first stepping stone in the writing of the history of private law in South Africa.
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Leading Cases in the Common Law

Book by A. W. Brian Simpson; Oxford University Press, 1996

Subjects:

Common Law--Great Britain--Cases, Common Law--United States--Cases

Collections: Entire Library

This book offers a collection of essays by arguably the most popular legal historian writing today. Most of the essays have not been previously published, and those which have appeared previously have been re-written to make the collection read more coherently. The collection is centred upon the ...
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This book offers a collection of essays by arguably the most popular legal historian writing today. Most of the essays have not been previously published, and those which have appeared previously have been re-written to make the collection read more coherently. The collection is centred upon the theme of the leading case - a case where the judgment has established a long-lasting or far reaching precedent in common law, and the author has selected a number of these cases in order to illustrate how the precedents established by the cases have little or nothing to do with the trials themselves.
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The Common Law

Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.; Little, Brown, 1923

Subjects:

Common Law

Collections: Entire Library

THE COMMON LAW THE COMMON LAW BY OLIVER WENDELL...of articles in the American Law Review , but I should...18 , 19 . -- F. The Common Law: a. Master and Servant...THE BAILEE AT COMMON LAW...
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Commercial Bail Bonding: A Comparison of Common Law Alternatives

Book by F. E. Devine; Praeger Publishers, 1991

Subjects:

Bail, Common Law

Collections: Entire Library

Devine argues persuasively for alternatives to the American commercial bail bonding system in this comprehensive, international comparison of bail. He shows how 15 countries of common-law heritage condemn the American approach to pre-trial release and have developed effective alternatives. The only ...
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Devine argues persuasively for alternatives to the American commercial bail bonding system in this comprehensive, international comparison of bail. He shows how 15 countries of common-law heritage condemn the American approach to pre-trial release and have developed effective alternatives. The only comparative analysis of its kind, this book is valuable to scholars of criminal justice, criminology, comparative law, political science, and sociology, as well as to criminal justice reformers and professionals.
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The Spirit of the Common Law

Book by Roscoe Pound; Marshall Jones, 1921

Subjects:

Common Law, Law--History, Law--United States--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Nor is this all. The American development of the common-law doctrine of supremacy...contributed to shape our American common law. These are: 1 An original...without Savigny, the common law without Coke, or American constitutional law without...

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Journal Articles on: american common law

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Evidence Myopia: The Failure to See the Federal Rules of Evidence as a Codification of the Common Law

Journal article by Glen Weissenberger; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 40, 1999

Subjects:

Common law--Influence, Evidence (Law)--Philosophy, Federal Rules of Evidence, Law--Interpretation and construction

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Mark D.. Rosen, What Has Happened to the Common Law?--Recent American Codifications, and Their Impact on Judicial...simply a means of dealing with the growing common law. See GRANT GILMORE, THE AGES OF AMERICAN LAW, 26-27 (1977). The Commission stated...
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The Common Law of Mexican Law in Texas Courts

Journal article by Carlos R. Soltero, Amy Clark-Meachum; Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 26, 2003

Subjects:

Common law--Usage, Conflict of laws--Analysis, Conflict of laws--Interpretation and construction, Diversity jurisdiction--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Entire Library

...law and repealed certain Mexican laws in 1840. (3) As a common law jurisdiction, Texas courts follow precedent under the...well-established principles and a well-established body of American case law." (17) Even after the abolition of the Dissimilarity...
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When Good Lockeans Go Bad: Common Law Courts, the Classical Liberal Tradition, and to the Modern Administrative State *

Journal article by Daniel Levin; Polity, Vol. 34, 2001

Subjects:

Common law--Interpretation and construction, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Liberalism--Analysis, Locke, John--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Representative government and representation--Moral and ethical aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...foundation of American political thought...convening "common law courts" to...abridgement of Americans traditional...the device of common law courts which...majority of Americans who continue...sovereignty and common law court movements...
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Birthright Citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States: A Comparative Analysis of the Common Law Basis for Granting Citizenship to Children Born of Illegal Immigrants

Journal article by Michael Robert W. Houston; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 33, 2000

Subjects:

Children of alien laborers--Laws, regulations, etc., Citizenship--Laws, regulations, etc., Common law--Interpretation and construction

Collections: Entire Library

...acknowledgment of the common law principle of jus...its acceptance in American jurisprudence...the English and American Systems The common law basis of territorial...133) Thus, in American jurisprudence, the common law serves the function...
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On the Meaning of Congressional Silence: Using Federal Common Law to Fill the Gap in Congress's Residual Statute of Limitations

Journal article by Abner J. Mikva, James E. Pfander; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 107, 1997

Subjects:

Common law--Interpretation and construction, Judicial Improvements Act of 1990--28 U.S.C. 1658, Limitation of actions--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...PERIODS: THE RELEVANCE OF FEDERAL COMMON LAW Section 1658 plainly ends state...the content of the rules of federal common law that determine the timeliness of...could and should use these retained common law powers to establish a regime of presumptive...

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Magazine Articles on: american common law

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Common Sense and Common Law

Magazine article by Robert F. Nagel; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, February 2004

Subjects:

Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism (Book)

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...F. Nagel COMMON-LAW LIBERTY : RETHINKING AMERICAN CONSITITIONALISM...might be abated. Common-Law Liberty: Rethinking American Constitutionalism...case that the common law tradition was...incorporated into the American Constitution and...
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The Organic and Moral Elements in the American Consitution - the Constitution Is a Product of Colonial Experience under British Common Law and Other Historic Traditions

Magazine article by Paul Johnson; World and I, Vol. 18, February 2003

Subjects:

Constitutional interpretation, Constitutional law--Analysis, Constitutional law--Ethical aspects, Constitutional law--History, Constitutional law--Interpretation and construction, Constitutions--Ethical aspects, Constitutions--Interpretation and construction, Constitutions--Terminology, Jacksonian democracy, United States Constitution

Collections: Entire Library

...Elements in the American Consitution...under British Common Law and Other Historic...interpreting the common law. The men of...Constitution." The Americans also inherited...short, the Americans were really...important as the common law tradition...
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British Common Law under Attack

Magazine article; The New American, Vol. 18, August 12, 2002

Subjects:

Civil rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Parties to actions--Civil rights, United Kingdom--Laws, regulations and rules, Violent crimes--Political aspects

Collections: Entire Library

British Common Law under Attack. The recent upsurge in violent crime suffered by citizens...outright, rights and guarantees cherished for centuries under British common law. On July 17th, British Home Secretary David Blunkett, whose office...
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When Criminal Rights Go Wrong; Forget Liberal. Forget Conservative. Think Common Sense

Magazine article by Paul Savoy; Washington Monthly, Vol. 21, December 1989

Subjects:

Common law--Receivers and reception, Criminal justice, Administration of--Analysis, Criminal law--Interpretation and construction, Criminals--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...conservative. Think common sense...National Law Journal showed that Americans are so fearful...opinions of the American people...much of what law schools have...that the common sense of...the English common law of liberty to the American Law Institutes...
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The Advance of Human Rights

Magazine article by Fred Edwords; The Humanist, November 1998

Subjects:

Common law--History, Human rights--History, Magna Carta (Historic document)--Influence

Collections: Entire Library

...written; what various labor, law, religious, and world...International Conference of American States. Through all of...rights to establish a common moral standard of achievement...declaration directly lay out a common set of standards. Article...personhood before the law. It also declares the...

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Newspaper Articles on: american common law

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Writing a New Right into the Common Law

Newspaper article by Wesley Pruden; The Washington Times, February 12, 1999

Subjects:

Blumenthal, Sidney

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...themselves are writing this new civic responsibility into the common law of the land. What other explanation could there be to...office. He has offended the justified expectations of the American people that the presidency must be above the sordid episodes...
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Patriot Act of 2001 Casts Wide Net; the Policy Lets the Law Be Applied beyond Terror, Even for the Investigation of Common Criminals

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 15, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...used for prosecuting common criminals even when...violations of any law," Justice Department...said Timothy Edgar, American Civil Liberties Union...investigation for a law-enforcement purpose...terrorists." The law also opens to seizure...catastrophic attack on the American homeland in the 20...
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Awareness of Race Not the Same as Racism; Banter across the Canteen Table Is One Thing; the Officer at Work, Enforcing the Law with Impartiality, Must Be Seen to Have Left Any Prejudices Behind. We Must Use Common Sense over Questions of Ethnic Groupings and Crime, Says Dennis Ellam

Newspaper article by Dennis Ellam; The Birmingham Post (England), October 15, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Left Any Prejudices Behind. We Must Use Common Sense over Questions of Ethnic Groupings...police force which is meant to serve all law-abiding civilians, irrespective of race...which has reduced many categories of American crime to levels below those now found...
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The ACLU Pits the Civil Rights of Few against the Common Good

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 30, 1996

Subjects:

American Civil Liberties Union

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...rights of few against the common good The American Civil Liberties Union...that the Districts curfew law violates the constitutional...youngsters to break the curfew law are subject to a $500...constitutional scholar. Im just a common sense legislator. And...
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Conferees Look for Common Ground

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), March 8, 2008

Subjects:

Environmental law

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Conferees Look for Common Ground. Byline...annual environmental law conference being...protecting Native American sacred sites. Nixon...disregarding environmental law is inspiring," he...industry group the American Forest Resources...to see if theres common ground, a way to...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american common law

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Civil Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...such continental powers (e.g., the Latin American countries), and other countries that have...legal systems (e.g., Japan) follow civil law. It is also the foundation for the law...colonized by England and apply the system of common law prevailing there. In general usage...
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell , American Jurist

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...jurisprudence at Harvard while editing the American Law Review and the 12th edition (1873...delivered a series of lectures on common law at the Lowell Institute. In...Holmess published works include The Common Law (1881), Speeches (1891, 1913...
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Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...civil law . Anglo-American Law In England after the...royal courts developed common law , i.e., judicial legislation...Edward Coke upheld the common law. In the 18th cent. English...helped to develop the American concept of law were James...
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Labor Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...organizing in the United States was discouraged by the common law doctrine that unions represented a conspiracy against...Law (1989); W. Forbath, Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement (1991). ____________________ The Columbia...
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Commercial Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Law In commercial countries of both the civil and common law systems there has been a considerable increase in the...comparable to the former private courts of merchants. The American states have almost identical commercial statutes that...

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