The Common Law (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781722991579)

The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The Common Law is a book that was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in 1881, 21 years before Holmes became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The book is about common law in the United States, including torts, property, contracts, and crime. It is written as a series of lectures. One of the most famous aphorisms to be drawn from this book occurs on the first page: "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." Holmes's pronouncement is a subtle qualification of a dictum by the famous seventeenth-century English jurist Sir Edward Coke: "Reason is the life of the law."

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
ISBN-10: 1722991577
ISBN-13: 9781722991579
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/14/2018
Pages: 210
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.44d