The Common Law (The John Harvard Library)

基本信息

Format：Paperback | 448 pages

Dimensions：140 x 210 x 30.48mm | 385.55g

Publication date：15 April 2009

Publisher：HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Imprint：The Belknap Press

Publication City/Country：Cambridge, Mass., United States

Language：English

Edition Statement：Reprint

ISBN10：0674034023

ISBN13：9780674034020

书籍简介

在《普通法》一书中，霍姆斯将他早期的法律理论系统化，这一理论源于他在波士顿洛厄尔研究所所做的一系列讲座。其结果是一部经久不衰的法律哲学经典著作，一个多世纪后仍有人阅读和查阅。从历史上的责任形式开始(被认为起源于古罗马和日耳曼血战中的复仇欲望)，该书继续讨论了刑法、侵权、扣押、占有和所有权、合同、继承以及民事和刑法的许多其他方面。

《普通法》包含了霍姆斯对法律历史方面的深刻而广泛的知识，同时又以一种通俗易懂的方式写成，这引起了另一位著名法学家的观察;“从某种意义上说，这本书是一部经典著作，因为它所蕴含的思想已被吸收并成为普通法律思想的一部分……它们将法律置于一种视角中，而此后法律学术界仅仅证实了这种视角。”——《人与法律》的菲利克斯·法兰克福特。

这本书首次出版于1881年，至今仍是律师、政治科学家、历史学家和普通读者——任何对人类社会规律的起源、发展和持续演变感兴趣的人——的必读之书。普通法不仅仅是对责任、刑法、侵权、保释、占有和所有权以及合同的历史考察，它还阐明了一位最高法院最高法官的思想和司法理论。爱德华·怀特提醒我们，这本书不仅是法学学生的必读之书，也是任何对美国历史感兴趣的人的必读之书。

In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, Holmes systematized his early legal doctrines. The result was an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted over a century later. Beginning with historical forms of liability (thought to have originated in the desire for vengeance in ancient Roman and Germanic blood feuds), the book goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bails, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law.

Encompassing Holmes's profound, wide-ranging knowledge of the law in its historical aspects, yet written in a manner easily accessible to the layman, The Common Law provoked this observation from another famed jurist; "The book is a classic in the sense that its stock of ideas has been absorbed and become part of common juristic thought … they placed law in a perspective which legal scholarship ever since has merely confirmed." — Felix Frankfurter, Of Law and Men.

First published in 1881, this book is still indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, historians, general readers — anyone interested in the origins, development, and continuing evolution of the laws that govern human society.Much more than an historical examination of liability, criminal law, torts, bail, possession and ownership, and contracts, The Common Law articulates the ideas and judicial theory of one of the greatest justices of the Supreme Court. G. Edward White reminds us why the book remains essential reading not only for law students but also for anyone interested in American history.  

作者简介

奥利弗·温德尔·霍姆斯(1841-1935)普遍被认为是美国最高法院的两位大法官之一，另一位是首席大法官约翰·马歇尔。在2000多份意见书中，霍姆斯描绘了一种令人印象深刻的法律哲学，这种哲学深刻地影响了美国法理学，尤其是在公民自由和司法约束领域。与此同时，他作为散文家的能力为他赢得了文学精英的地位。

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) is generally considered one of the two greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall being the other. In more than 2000 opinions, he delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.

目录

Introduction

G. Edward White

Note on the Text

Chronology of Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Life

The Common Law

Preface

Lecture I. Early Forms of Liability

Lecture II. The Criminal Law

Lecture III. Torts: Trespass and Negligence

Lecture V. The Bailee at Common Law

Lecture VI. Possession

Lecture VII. Contract: I. History

Lecture VIII. Contract: II. Elements

Lecture IX. Contract: III. Void and Voidable

Lecture X. Successions: I. After Death II. Inter Vivos

Lecture XI. Successions: II. Inter Vivos

Selected Bibliography

Glossary of Legal Terms

Table of Cases

Year Books and Early Cases

Index