Law, Its Origin, Growth and Function: Being a Course of Lectures Prepared for Delivery Before the Law School of Harvard University (Classic Reprint) - Couverture rigide

James Coolidge Carter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1528059654 ISBN 13 : 9781528059657

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Law, Its Origin, Growth and Function: Being a Course of Lectures Prepared for Delivery Before the Law School of Harvard University

After his retirement from active practice, he determined to devote a portion of his leisure to writing a somewhat more important and complete expression of his views on these topics than had been contained in his former pamphlets and addresses but at the suggestion of President Eliot, of Harvard University, he substituted for this proposed work a series of lectures to be delivered before the Law School of that University. I find among his papers a brief memorandum in his handwriting, evidently written before this change of purpose and intended as a suggestion for a preface to the work which he at first designed to write. It is endorsed By Way of a Possible Preface, and is as follows.

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The origin and nature of law, both written and unwritten; its growth and development; its function in the social order; its powerful influence as an effective force in the progress and civilisation of mankind; the importance of distinguishing between the nature of written and unwritten law and, ascertaining the proper and legitimate province of each, were subjects which possessed for Mr. Carter an absorbing interest and to which he devoted much attention, particularly during the last few years of his life, when his retirement from active practice afforded him more opporttuiity for study and reflection. The general field of inquiry was not new to him, for at a much earlier period, when still in the full tide of professional activity and btirdened by the exacting demands of a large and important practice at the Bar, he had taken the principal part in opposing the adoption by the State of New York of the well known Civil Code, of which the late David Dudley Field was the author; and this task and the inquiries which it led him to make, were pursued by him with the keenest interest. The argiiments which he then framed and addressed to successive legislatures and governors, led to the final rejection of the proposed Code.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1528059654
• ISBN 13: 9781528059657
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 365
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