Dimensions of Private Law - Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Legal Reasoning

Klappentext Anglo-American private law (the law governing mutual rights and obligations of individuals) has been a far more complex phenomenon than is usually recognized. Attempts to reduce it to a single explanatory principle, or to a precisely classified or categorized map, scheme, or diagram, are likely to distort the past by omitting or marginalizing material inconsistent with proposed principles or schemes. Many legal issues cannot be allocated exclusively to one category. Often several concepts have worked concurrently and cumulatively, so that competing explanations and categories are not so much alternatives, of which only one can be correct, as different dimensions of a complex phenomenon, of which several may be simultaneously valid and necessary. This study will be of importance to those interested in property, tort, contract, unjust enrichment, legal reasoning, legal method, the history of the common law, and the relation between legal theory and legal history. Zusammenfassung Anglo-American private law has been a far more complex phenomenon than has been usually recognized. This study will be of importance to those interested in property! tort! contract! unjust enrichment! legal reasoning! legal method! the history of the common law! and the relation between legal theory and legal history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the mapping of legal concepts; 2. Johanna Wagner and the Rival Opera Houses; 3. Economic harms; 4. Reliance; 5. Liability for physical harms; 6. Profits derived from wrongs; 7. Domestic obligations; 8. Inter-relation of obligations; 9. Property and obligation; 10. Public interest and private right; 11. Conclusion: the concept of legal mapping.

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• Authors: S. M. Waddams, S.M. Waddams, Stephen Waddams, Stephen (University of Toronto) Waddams, Waddams Stephen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.07.2003
• EAN: 9780521016698
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01669-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, England, Wales, LAW / General Practice, LAW / Contracts, LAW / Common, contract law, United States of America, USA, Common Law, Legal skills & practice, Legal skills and practice, Systems of law: common law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law