The Common Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511909112)

The object of this legal study is to present a general view of the Common Law. To accomplish the task, other tools are needed besides logic. It is something to show that the consistency of a system requires a particular result, but it is not all. The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.

Author: J. Walker McSpadden
ISBN-10: 1511909110
ISBN-13: 9781511909112
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2015
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.54d