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The Common Law is Oliver Wendell Holmes' most sustained work of jurisprudence. At the outset of The Common Law Holmes posits that he is concerned with establishing that the common law can meet the changing needs of society while preserving continuity with the past.
List of contents
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, LECTURE 1: EARLY FORMS OF LIABILITY, LECTURE 2: THE CRIMINAL LAW, LECTURE 3: TORTS.- TRESPASS AND NEGLIGENCE, LECTURE 4: FRAUD, MALICE, AND INTENT - THE THEORY OF TORTS, LECTURE 5: THE BAILEE AT COMMON LAW, LECTURE 6: POSSESSION, LECTURE 7: CONTRACT. - 1. HISTORY, LECTURE 8: CONTRACT. - 2. ELEMENTS, LECTURE 9: CONTRACT. - 3. VOID AND VOIDABLE, LECTURE 10: SUCCESSIONS. - 1. AFTER DEATH. - 2. INTER VIVOS, LECTURE 11: SUCCESSIONS. - 2. INTER VIVOS, Glossary of Legal Terms, Table of Cases, Year Books and Early Cases, Index
About the author
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) served as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nicknamed the Great Dissenter because of his many dissenting opinions. Holmes is also the author of Kent's Commentaries on the Law (1873) and The Path of the Law (1897).
Summary
The Common Law is Oliver Wendell Holmes' most sustained work of jurisprudence. At the outset of The Common Law Holmes posits that he is concerned with establishing that the common law can meet the changing needs of society while preserving continuity with the past.
