Cambridge University Press Dimensions of Private Law: Categories & Concepts Anglo-American Reason Anglo-American private law (the law governing mutual rights and obligations of individuals) has been.. Product #: 9780521016698 Regular price: $39.99 $39.99

Dimensions of Private Law: Categories & Concepts Anglo-American Reason

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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.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521016698
Author(s) Waddams, SM
Edition 1
Format Pb
Publication Date 01/07/2003