• 导读
  • “美国人写过最好的法律书”,法律体系成长史的忠实记录。

  • 内容简介
  • 《普通法》是霍姆斯大法官最重要的著作,最为清晰地展现了霍姆斯的法律思想,被誉为"美国人写过的最好的法律书"。霍姆斯的这《普通法》具有浓厚的历史色彩,展示了我们所不熟悉的法律体系的生长过程,它主要是由法官、经常借助于陪审团的帮助、通过个别案件的裁决积累而成的。霍姆斯举了大量案例及其中的法律,透过对各个法律部门的历史辨析,我们可以由此较为清晰地了解普通法法律家的思考方式。这样的一本书籍对中国读者具有较大的启示。

    The Common Law is a classic work from the great Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In The Common Law, Holmes examines many aspects of the common law giving great attention to the historical perspective and precedence and its influence on modern common law. In this work you will lengthy discussions on several areas of law including: liability, criminal laws, torts, contracts, and successions. Extensively annotated, this edition of The Common Law will make great reading for any lawyer or student of the law.

  • 作者简介
  • 奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯(Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,1841年3月8日-1935年3月6日)是美国诗人老奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯之子,他是美国著名法学家,美国最高法院大法官。他被公认为是美国最高法院最伟大的大法官之一。

    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (March 8, 1841 – March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a unanimous Court in the 1919 case of Schenck v. United States, and is one of the most influential American common law judges, honored during his lifetime in Great Britain as well as the United States. Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90 years, 309 days, making him the oldest Justice in the Supreme Court's history. He also served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was Weld Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, of which he was an alumnus.

  • 目录
    • PREFACE
    • LECTURE I. EARLY FORMS OF LIABILITY.
    • LECTURE II. THE CRIMINAL LAW.
    • LECTURE III. TORTS.—TRESPASS AND NEGLIGENCE.
    • LECTURE IV. FRAUD, MALICE, AND INTENT.—THE THEORY OF TORTS.
    • LECTURE V. THE BAILEE AT COMMON LAW.
    • LECTURE VI. POSSESSION.
    • LECTURE VII. CONTRACT.—I. HISTORY.
    • LECTURE VIII. CONTRACT. II. ELEMENTS.
    • LECTURE IX. CONTRACT.—III. VOID AND VOIDABLE.
    • LECTURE X. SUCCESSIONS AFTER DEATH.
    • LECTURE XI. SUCCESSIONS.—II. INTER VIVOS.
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