"The Common Law," a great legal classic, was written by noted Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. in 1881. The book is about common law in the United states, including torts, property, contracts, and crime. The substance of "The Common Law" is a series of lectures on the various common law subjects: criminal law, property law, contracts, consideration, torts, negligence, bailments, trespass, etc. What makes this book so important is not that the lectures were a summary of the current state of the law at the time Holmes spoke in 1881, but rather because Holmes insightfully...

The classic introduction to law and its moral import, as clearly spun for lawyers and lay thinkers alike by America's legal legend, is now available in a library-quality clothbound edition with new Foreword and in a presentation suitable for gifting and keeping; it's an excellent read the summer before law school, for social scientists and historians, and for a graduation award. This new edition adds an extensive, biographical introduction by Steven Alan Childress, J.D., M.A., Ph.D., a senior professor of law at Tulane University. Presented in the Legal Legends Series by Quid Pro Books....

"The Common Law" from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1841-1935).

"The Path of the Law" from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1841-1935).