
Genius of the Common Law, 1912
by Pollock, Frederick-
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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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