The doctrine of subrogation, where one party is substituted to the rights of another, is a remedy familiar to all commercial law practitioners. This book seeks to rationalize the position of the doctrine of subrogation within the general law of restitution. Within a systematic analytical framework, it gives a full account of the developing English and Commonwealth law of subrogation, and a selective use is also made of United States decisions. A number of false assumptions which have entered the case-law are exposed, and the principles upon which subrogation should be awarded are set on a...

This fully edited volume contains nine of Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished plays at the Library of Congress, including three of her full-length plays: Polk County, Cold Keener and De Turkey and De Law. This book is expected be a major contribution to American literary scholarship as it portrays customary African American life in the 20th century through a highly nonconformist African American lens. Zora Neale Hurston is a world-renowned author, best known for her fiction and folklore, including her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road...

It is now well established that the law of unjust enrichment forms an important and distinctive part of the English law of obligations. Restitutionary awards for unjust enrichment and for wrongdoing are clearly recognized for what they are, but these are recent developments. Before the last decade of the twentieth century, the very existence of a separate law of unjust enrichment was controversial, with its scope and content matters of dispute. In this collection of essays, a group of leading scholars look back and reappraise some of the landmark cases in the law of restitution. They range...

Now available in paperback, this book contains essays on landmark UK cases in the development of equitable doctrine, running from the 17th century to recent times. The range, breadth, and social importance of equitable principles are well known, as these affect commercial, domestic, and even political matters. By focusing on the historical development of these principles, the essays help the reader to understand them more clearly, and also provide insights into the processes of legal change through judicial innovation. The themes addressed include: the nature of the UK courts' equitable...

While continental and comparative lawyers have recently rediscovered succession law as an area of immense practical importance deserving greater academic attention, it is still a very much neglected field in England. This books aims specifically to reinvigorate the English debate on succession law by bringing together academics and practitioners whose work concerns or touches on current issues in the field and questions of fundamental importance. It will be of great interest to both academics and practitioners whose work engages with succession law issues, and non-UK comparative lawyers. ...

Now available in paperback, Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort contains thirteen essays on leading UK tort cases, ranging from the early 19th century to the present day. The cases raise a broad range of important issues across the law of tort, including such diverse areas as acts of state and public nuisance, as well as central questions relating to the tort of negligence. Several of the essays place the UK cases in their historical context in ways that change our understanding of the cases' significance. Sometimes the focus is on drawing out previously neglected aspects of cases which have...