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Leading cases in the common law

Author: A W B Simpson
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Jurisprudence
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: A W B Simpson
ISBN: 0198258526 9780198258520
OCLC Number: 31934276
Description: xii, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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).
Responsibility: A.W. Brian Simpson.
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