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Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, ... Successions, and Judgments. 8th ed. (1883)
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Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, and Judgments.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1883. xxxix, 901 pp. Reprinted 2008 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Hardcover.
* Reprint of the eighth and last edition. Along with William Kent, Joseph Story 1779-1845 shares the distinction of having had the greatest influence on American law during the nineteenth century. Marvin considers Story's Conflict of Laws to be the first systematic work on the subject. Story collected material from all available sources, and systematized it in a manner useful to all practitioners. "No work on international jurisprudence merited, nor received, greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for the extensive learning of Mr. Justice Story.": Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 670-671.
A Treatise on the Law of Estoppel and Its Application in Practice
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Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I. to Richard I. Preserved in Historical Records (Classic Reprint)
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IN the investigation, several years ago, of the English forms of action in tort from the time of Braeton, for the writer's Leading Cases on Torts, the importance of a careful study of the litigation, and especially of the writs, of the Norman and sub-norman time became very manifest; and the determination was then made to thoroughly explore the records of the age. The first fruits of the undertaking are now offered to the student.
The present volume embraces substantially all the recorded temporal, and a few ecclesiastical, litigations of the great period which begins with the Norman Conquest and ends with the beginning of the reign of Richard I. A few cases of the first half of Richard's reign are given, so as to make connexion with the Rotuli Curiae Regis, which begin with the sixth year of that reign, and thus to complete the series of English Law Reports from the time of the Conquest. The volume is not a selection of cases, but contains all of a temporal nature that are of value in the known legal monuments of the period. A few cases have, indeed, been omitted; but only be cause they were either clearly the spurious records of later times, or were manifestly incomplete.
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Leading Cases on the Law of Torts Determined by the Courts of America and England: With Notes
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When asked some time ago to write a book on Wills for the Students' Series, I told my publishers, who are owners of the American Copyright of J arman on Wills, under the International Copyright Law, that I would try it if I could have free use of J arman and my own notes to that work. How much the per mission given has been used, the references to Jar man, scattered up and down the present volume, in part bear witness.
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Reports of All the Published Life and Accident Insurance Cases: Cases determined in the American courts prior to January, 1871
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Melville Madison Bigelow was an American educator and writer. He was professor of Boston University Law School.
Background
Melville Bigelow was born on August 2, 1846, near Eaton Rapids, Michigan, United States, the son of William Enos Bigelow of Michigan, a Methodist clergyman, and Daphne F. Madison of New York. He descended from Mary Warren and John Biglo of Watertown, Massachussets, who were married on August 30, 1642.
Education
Melville's early education was received in the public schools wherever his father happened to be stationed within the territory embraced by the Detroit Conference, much of which was sparsely populated frontier country. Inheriting many of the characteristics of his mother, a remarkable woman, he was able to overcome the somewhat crude educational facilities of Milford, Port Huron, and Ypsilanti. Proceeding to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he graduated A. B. in 1866, and LL. B two years later. He studied law at Pontiac for a short time, and went from there to Memphis, where his uncle, Joseph Enos Bigelow, was practising. Later he undertook a post-graduate courseat Harvard, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1879.
Career
In March 1868 Bigelow was admitted to the Tennessee bar. He had become interested in the historical development of the law and now determined to undertake research work in that line in preference to the actual practise of his profession. With this end in view he removed to Boston in 1870, and was admitted a member of the Boston bar. At that time the trustees of Boston University were considering the advisability of establishing a law school in the University and Bigelow was in 1871 appointed a member of a committee to investigate and report. The report, which he himself prepared, was favorable, and in September 1872 the Boston University Law School was opened, Bigelow being appointed a member of the faculty. Thus commenced a connection which was maintained throughout fifty years as lecturer, professor, and dean. He was now engaged in a work for which by the nature of his previous studies he was admirably fitted, which coincided with his own inclinations and yielded the opportunity to indulge in research which was his chief delight.
Bigelow’s initial publication was the first volume of Reports of all the Published Life and Accident Insurance Cases, American Courts (1871), the series being continued in four subsequent volumes, the last of which appeared in 1877. His next work, The Law of Estoppel and its Application in Practice (1872), at once attracted attention by its masterly handling of an extremely technical and difficult branch of the law, as well as by its attractive style. It established Bigelow's reputation as a legal writer and passed through many editions. Then followed An Index of Cases overruled, reversed by the Courts of America, England, and Ireland (1873), a supplement to which was issued in 1887, a scientific selection of Leading Cases on the Law of Torts (1875), and a textbook, The Law of Fraud and the Procedure pertaining to the Redress thereof (1877), both of the latter being in the nature of preparatory work for two treatises which were to come from his pen later.
Next to appear was his Elements of the Law of Torts (1878), a work intended for students, covering a field which had hitherto been greatly neglected. It became the standard textbook in all American law schools, and its inclusion by the University of Cambridge, England, in the list of works recommended for study, led ultimately to the preparation by Bigelow of an English edition which was published by the Cambridge University Press in 1889. This was the first instance of such an honor being accorded to an American textbook and indicated the high academic standard which Bigelow had attained. He had not confined his labors, however, to the law as it existed, but, pursuing a line of research which always had for him a particular fascination, read deeply in the ancient English records, the early results of which were embodied in his Placita Anglo-Normannica: Law Cases from William I to Richard I preserved in Historical Records, published in London in 1879, and republished in Boston two years later. It was a bold experiment on Bigelow's part but the result justified the risk. In undertaking this work he entered a field which had been considerably neglected.
Then came Elements of Equity (1879) and the Law of Bills, Notes and Cheques illustrated by leading cases (1880) - both students' books - which were followed by History of Procedure in England from the Norman Conquest: the Norman Period 1066-1204 (1880), another excursion into legal antiquities, which confirmed previous estimates of the depth of his scholarship and the ability of his pen. This work also met with a hearty reception in English university circles. The succeeding eight years were devoted to assiduous work at the Law School and to the preparation of a monumental treatise on the Law of Fraud on its Civil Side which appeared in two volumes in 1888-1890, and immediately became recognized as the most valuable work on that subject which had been produced in America. Bigelow subsequently published Elements of the Law of Bills, Notes and Cheques and the English Bills of Exchange Act (1893), Cases on the Law of Bills, Notes and Cheques (1894), and a treatise on The Law of Wills (1898), the latter exhibiting all the qualities which had made his Estoppel and Torts so conspicuously successful.
In 1903 he wrote articles on "The Declaration of Independence" and "The Constitution, " for The Cambridge Modern History, vol. VII. He contributed to and wrote a preface for a collection of essays entitled Centralization and the Law (1906). Other later works of his were A False Equation - The Problem of the Great Trust (1911), and Papers on the Legal History of Government; difficulties fundamental and artificial (1920). In addition, he contributed many articles on legal and kindred subjects to current periodicals, including the Law Quarterly Review. He died in Boston after a long illness, being the last survivor of the original faculty of the Boston Law School.
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Membership
Bigelow was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Academy of Arts and Sciences; he was vice president of the American Bible Society.
Connections
Bigelow was three times married: in 1869 to Elizabeth Chamberlin, daughter of Alfred Bragg of Milford, Massachussets, who died in 1881; in 1883 to Cornelia Frothingham Read, who died in 1892; in 1898 to Alice Bradford Woodman.