(Excerpt from The Expansion of the Common Law The lecture...)
Excerpt from The Expansion of the Common Law The lectures from which this volume is named were delivered to the Law Schools of several American Universities last autumn. A few additions have been made to the original text. The address given at the request of the Harvard Law School Association for its commemoration of 1895 was not intended at the time to have any sequel, but is now prefixed to the course of 1903 as being sufficiently germane to the matter to serve as a general introduction. Familiar matters of both fact and law were necessarily taken for granted in delivering the lectures; and it does not now seem desirable to vouch authorities at large for them. References have been given only where it is thought that they may be really useful for verification or farther search. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1330300122/?tag=2022091-20
( First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Fred...)
First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitlands legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I expanded the work of Sir Edward Coke and William Blackstone by exploring the origins of key aspects of English common law and society and with them the development of individual rights as these were gradually carved out from the authority of the Crown and the Church. Although it has been more than a century since its initial publication, Pollock and Maitlands work is still considered an accessible and useful foundational reference for scholars of medieval English law. Volume one begins with an examination of Anglo-Saxon law, goes on to consider the changes in law introduced by the Normans, then moves to the twelfth-century Age of Glanvill, with the first great compilation of English laws and customs, followed by the thirteenth-century Age of Bracton, author of another major treatise on the same subject. Volume two takes up different areas of English law topic by topic, or as its authors labeled it, The Doctrines of English Law in the Early Middle Ages. They consider land tenure, marriage and wardship, fealty, the ranks of men both free and unfree, aliens, Jews, excommunicates, women, and the churches and the King, before turning to the various jurisdictions of that decentralized era. The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I helps readers explore the origins of English legal exceptionalism and through the English tradition the basis of the law of America, Canada, Australia, and other nations. This work is of interest to legal scholars, historians of the Middle Ages, political scientists, political philosophers, and all those interested in Anglo-Saxon law and early law and society. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008YCE6PG/?tag=2022091-20
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... generally, so that the law and practice of the two countries are quite different. Light, or the benefit of light, is in itself not a thing at all in the legal sense any more than it is matter in the sense of the physicist; and the question is how far the enjoyment, in some definite manner and measure, of that which in itself is common to all the world can or does give rise to definite rights to be free from interruption in such enjoyment. Ownership. Ownership may be described as the entirety of the powers of use and disposal allowed by law. This implies that there is some power of disposal, and in modern times we should hardly be disposed to call a person an owner who had no such power.1 If we found anywhere a system of law which did not recognise alienation by acts of parties at all, we should say not that the powers of an owner were very much restricted in that system, but that it did not recognise ownership. The term, however, is not strictly a technical one in the Common Law,2 we shall presently see why. We must not suppose that all the powers of an owner need be exerciseable at once and immediately; he may remain owner though he' has parted with some of them for a time. He may for a time even part with his whole powers of use and enjoyment, and suspend his power of disposal, provided that he reserves, for himself or his successors, the right of ultimately reclaiming the thing and being restored to his power. This is the common case of hiring land, buildings, or goods. Again, the owner's powers may be limited in particular directions for an indefinite time by rights as permanent in their nature as ownership itself. Such is the case where the owner of Whiteacre has a right of vway over his neighbour's field of Blackacre. As this...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1230305505/?tag=2022091-20
(Format Paperback Subject History)
Format Paperback Subject History
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1177307391/?tag=2022091-20
jurist legal scholar professor
Pollock was born on December 10, 1845, in London. He was the eldest son of William Frederick Pollock, Master of the Court of Exchequer, and Juliet Creed, daughter of the Rev, Harry Creed. He was the grandson of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the great-nephew of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, and the first cousin of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, Master of the Rolls.
He was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected Fellow in 1868 (later Honorable Fellow in 1920).
Pollock was called to the bar in 1871, taught jurisprudence at the University of Oxford (1883–1903), succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1888, and was made a king’s counsel in 1920. He was a founder and the first editor (1885–1919) of the Law Quarterly Review and also edited the Law Reports (1895–1935). Three of Pollock’s textbooks remained in use for many years: Principles of Contract (1876), Digest of the Law of Partnership (1877), and The Law of Torts (1887). The Holmes-Pollock Letters, edited by Mark De Wolfe Howe, were published in 1941.
He is best known for his History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, written with F. W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
( First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Fred...)
(Excerpt from The Expansion of the Common Law The lecture...)
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
(Format Paperback Subject History)
On 13 August 1873 he married Georgina Harriet Deffell (died on 30 March 1935). They had a daughter and a son, a noted historian, succeeded to the baronetcy.
He was a Master of the Court of Exchequer.
She was a daughter of Harry Creed.
He was a British lawyer and Tory politician.
She was a daughter of John Deffell.
He was a British Indian Army officer.
She was born on 15 June 1876.
He was born in 1878 and died in 1963.
He was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge. He served as Master of the Rolls from 1923 to 1935.
He was an English writer, poet, lecturer and journalist.
