A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Section II. Conversion (a) Nonfeasance (b) Destruction, or Change 111 Nature or Quality of a Chattel (c) Asportation (d) Defendant a Purchaser, Pledgee, or Bailee of a Wrongful.
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Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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This edition differs from the first chiefly in these respects:
1. The following chapters in the first edition are omitted.
Chapter VI. Whether Negligence of Maker or Vendor of Chattel may make him Liable to Persons other than those contracting with him.
Chapter XII. Merger, or Suspension, of Civil Remedy in Case of Felony.
Chapter XIII. Whether Action lies at Common Law for causing Death.
Chapter XIV. Private Action for Damage caused by Public Nuisance.
Chapter XV. Immunity of Judicial Officers from Civil Actions.
Chapter XVII. Distinction between Tort and Breach of Contract. Cases and notes bearing on the subjects of some of these chapters may be found here under other heads.
2. Three new chapters are added:
Chapter II. When Breach of Statutory Duty affords Basis for an Action of Tort.
Chapter VI. Proof of Negligence.
Chapter XI. Immunity of Landowner when his Rightful User of his Land (or the natural Condition of his Land) has resulted in Damage to his Neighbor.
3. The original chapter (Chapter III, first edition) on Negligence, Standard of Care and Degrees of Care is now divided into two chapters, and the first of these (on Negligence) is subdivided into eight sections. A new chapter is added on Proof of Negligence. The chapters on Contributory Negligence and Imputed Contributory Negligence are divided into sections. Upon all these subjects the book contains many cases not in the former edition.
4. On most topics additional cases are inserted, while some cases in the first edition are omitted and some others are abridged.
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Cases on Restraint of Trade III: A Selection of Cases From Cases on Partnership; And From Cases on Private Corporations (Classic Reprint)
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Case heard before Marshall, J. R. S. Nelson, for plaintiff in error. R. F. Wingate, for defendant in error.
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Lectures On Legal History and Miscellaneous Legal Essays
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A Selection of Cases on the Law of Admiralty: With Notes and Citations; Parts I, II, III (Classic Reprint)
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The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
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A Selection of Cases of the Law of Trusts: With Notes and Citations (Classic Reprint)
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Section I. His Claim is purely Equitable, except when Account would lie at Common Law section II.
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The Negotiable Instruments Law Annotated: With References to the English Bills of Exchange Act and With the Cases Under the Negotiable Instruments Law ... Bills of Exchange Act and Comments Thereon
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A Selection of Cases in Equity Jurisdiction: With Notes and Citations; Volume 1
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A Selection of Cases on Pleading at Common law, With References and Citations
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James Barr Ames was an American educator and legal writer. He popularized the "case-study" method of teaching law. He served as dean of Harvard Law School from 1895 to 1910.
Background
James Barr Ames was born on June 22, 1846 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the only son of Samuel Tarbell Ames, a Boston merchant, and Mary Hartwell Barr. Soon after his birth his parents moved to the neighboring town of Medford, returning to Boston in 1856.
Education
Ames received his earliest education in Medford. He also attended successively the Brimmer School and the Boston Latin School until he entered Harvard College in 1863. After his first term as a sophomore he was compelled by ill health to leave college and spent most of the time until March 1866 on a farm in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, thereby gaining a love of farming which he retained for the rest of his life. He then joined as a sophomore the class of 1868 at Harvard. Ames was distinguished in college as captain of the university baseball nine, for social popularity, and for high scholarship. In 1870 he entered the Harvard Law School and in 1873 he was admitted to the bar. Ames received the degree of Doctor of Laws from six universities by the time of his passing.
Career
Ames began his career in the private school of E. S. Dixwell, where he worked for a year. Then, after a year in Europe, he became tutor, 1871-1872, in French and German in Harvard College, and, 1872-1873, supplied the place of Henry Adams in teaching medieval history. In 1873 he was appointed an assistant professor of law in Harvard Law School. The experiment of appointing as a teacher of law one who had never practised the profession was novel, but proved so successful that when, in 1877, on some intimation that his lack of practise might preclude a permanent appointment, he resigned and was about to go into practise, the Corporation of the University appointed him professor without limit of tenure. His life-work thereafter was bound up with the Harvard Law School.
It is to Ames's success in adapting the idea of his teacher, C. C. Langdell, that the triumph of the system of teaching law by the study of reported cases is largely due. A love for history acquired in college study led Ames almost from the beginning of his work as teacher to read the earlier sources of English law. In the course of some years during summer vacations on his farm at Castine, Maine, he read through the Year-Books which contain a great mass of early judicial decisions reported in abbreviated Norman-French. He noted the salient points discovered in this reading, and he was thus enabled in two essays on "The History of Assumpsit" to give the answer to a problem that had heretofore puzzled lawyers and legal historians--what were the sources from which was developed the law of simple contracts, and the action of assumpsit by which such contracts were enforced.
Ames played a major role in the development of the Harvard Law Review, founded by students in 1887 and since then edited entirely by students, soon became recognized as one of the leading legal periodicals in the English-speaking world, and served as a model for a number of similar periodicals subsequently started in other law schools. Most of Ames's legal writing appeared in the pages of this journal, and as the articles were on crucial questions, they have had an influence out of proportion to their number. Since Ames' death they have been collected and republished, together with the substance of a course of lectures on legal history which he delivered shortly after the publication of his essays on the history of assumpsit.
In 1895 Ames followed Langdell as dean of the Harvard Law School as a natural successor, since for many years previously he had been Langdell's chief lieutenant. During the years of Ames' leadership the standards of scholarship required for admission to the school and for securing its degree were continuously made more severe. His faith that excellence would always win recognition was unquestioning and inspiring. He had no hesitation in requiring a college degree as a requisite for admission to the school, and was not surprised when this requirement was soon followed by a large growth in numbers.
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Membership
Ames was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1878.
Personality
Ames' knowledge of legal principles was freely drawn upon, as was his intimate acquaintance with the historical development of any doctrine under consideration, but in the classroom he rarely entered into detailed discussion of authorities. He was an idealist in law, and his supreme gift as a scholar and a teacher was his constructive legal imagination. He believed it to be the function of the lawyer, and especially of the teacher of law, to weld from the decisions a body of principles not only just but mutually consistent and coherent. It was his constant effort to lead his students to exercise their reasoning powers to this end.
His personal contact with students was always intimate, and though his sympathy was controlled by a keen sense of justice, and he never hesitated to tell the truth merely because it was disagreeable, his influence over them was very great.
Though not of striking appearance, he had not only character but the gift of manners, and no one was long associated with him without being impressed with his quality.
Connections
On June 29, 1880, Ames married Sarah Russell, the daughter of George Russell and Sarah (Shaw) Russell of Boston, who with two sons survived him.