{"product_id":"the-common-law-oliver-wendell-holmes-jr-9781722991579","title":"The Common Law","description":"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1722991577\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781722991579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.44d","brand":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057078137087,"sku":"9781722991579","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a6ed7ff-20c5-49ed-be1e-004fb4a9b3b7.jpg?v=1685044905","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-common-law-oliver-wendell-holmes-jr-9781722991579","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}