A Digest of Important Cases On the Law of Crimes - Couverture souple

Rood, John Romain

9781143524721: A Digest of Important Cases On the Law of Crimes

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ISBN 10 : 1143524721 ISBN 13 : 9781143524721

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Some four hundred years ago, one of the greatest advocates of the case system of studying law indeed, the only one, so far as I am aware, who ever wrote a series of law reports for students use said: The reporting of particular cases or examples is the most perspicuous course of teaching the right rule and reason of the law; for so did Almighty God himself, when he delivered by Moses his judicial laws 5R eports, Preface, p. ix. And apparently those who agree with this eminent professor of law have been increasing in numbers for some time. I do not wish to challenge the statement, but to call attention to the maturer experience and after conduct of the great judge who made it. There are various methods of reporting decided cases, and there are various methods of studying law by the case system. The most elaborate method of case reporting is first to give the entire record in the case, then a briefer statement of the facts, then the arguments on both sides at large and all the authorities cited on either side stated at length as to each point in the case separately, together with any other arguments and authorities that the industry of the reporter can discover, and finally the conclusion of the court as to each, with the reasons assigned therefor. By this method of reporting Lord Coke made many of his cases such storehouses of learning that they have been the delight and admiration of every seeker for cthe law on these questions ever since; for nowhere could such elab3 orate statements of the matter be found, nor even anything to add ;to what he had said. For example, there areS helley sC ase and Chudleigh sC ase, in the first volume of Lord Coke sreports. What more could be said than is there reported? I ndeed, these are the fountains from which all we have has been drawn. Yet what teacher of law has seen fit since to incorporate either of these cases in the
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