Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply

ISBN-13: 9780199256877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 260 str.

Michael Taggart

Opis

The leading case of The Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford v Pickles was the first to establish that it is not unlawful for a property owner to exercise his or her property rights maliciously and to the detriment of others or the public interest. Though controversial at the time, today it is often invisible and taken for granted. This book explores why the common law, in contrast to civil law systems, developed in this way.

Recenzje

Michael Taggart has explored the case and its implications with an impressive reach of research, including plunges into archival local history, close reading of relevant common law and statute material, and a thorough grip on the vast secondary literature, to which he adds much comparative material from Scots, American, Continental and Commonwealth law.

O autorze

Michael Taggart is Professor of Law at The University of Auckland. He studied law at the University of Auckland and Harvard University. He has taught law at the University of Auckland since 1982. Before that he taught at the University of Western Ontario and has visited Queen's University, Canada, the University of Saskatchewen, the University of Toronto and at the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, New Zealand.