Genius of the Common Law, 1912
by Pollock, FrederickFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-01-01
Publisher(s): Lawbook Exchange Ltd
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Pollock, Sir Frederick. The Genius of the Common Law. New York: The Columbia University Press, 1912. vii, 141 pp. Reprinted 2000 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-047160. ISBN 1-58477-043-0. Cloth. $60. * A collection of Sir Frederick Pollock's lectures from the Carpentier Series at Columbia University. Holdsworth praised the eight lectures as a discussion of "...critical studies of aspects and characteristics of the common law which only an accomplished legal historian, a master of the modern law, and a professor of jurisprudence could have written." Holdsworth, Some Makers of English Law 287. Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection of New York University (1953) 143.
Table of Contents
| Our Lady and her Knights | p. 1 |
| Continuity of the Common Law | |
| Germanic origins and tradition | |
| The Giants and the Gods | p. 14 |
| Archaic formalism | |
| Its necessity and tyranny | |
| The King's authority as deliverer | |
| Surrebutter Castle | p. 27 |
| Decadent formalism | |
| Special pleading in mneteenth century | |
| Baron Surrebutter and Crogate | |
| Enemies in the Gate | p. 38 |
| External dangers | |
| Medieval lawlessness | |
| Officialism, ancient and modern | |
| Administrative encroachment | |
| Popular and political jealousy | |
| Socialism and Anarchism | |
| The Common Law and the Puritans | |
| Rescue and Ransom | p. 59 |
| Remedies within the Common Law: why artificial and partial | |
| Lay interference | |
| Extensions of jurisdiction | |
| Fictions | |
| Reform by legislation: danger of amateur work | |
| Alliance and Conquest | p. 75 |
| Borrowing | |
| Competition with other systems | |
| Assimilation | |
| Law merchant | |
| Adaptation to modern business conditions | |
| Perils of the Market-place | p. 94 |
| Contact with economic opinion: conflicts of doctrine and tendency | |
| Restraint of trade | |
| Combinations | |
| Responsibility of employers and undertakers | |
| The Perpetual Quest | p. 110 |
| Conclusion | |
| Vitality of the Common Law | |
| Competence for unremitting advance | |
| Vindication of its native merit | |
| Law the sister of Freedom | |
| Index | p. 127 |
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