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   Sep 19, 1996 · The collection is centred upon the theme of the leading case — a case where the judgment has established a long-lasting or far reaching precedent in common law, and the author has selected a number of these cases in order to illustrate how the precedents established by the cases have little or nothing to do with the trials themselves.

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   Chaucer’s man of law may not have owned books of cases literally stretching back to the time of the Conquest, but the poetic exaggeration must have worked upon fact; a serjeant at law was expected to possess an impressive array of law books.

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   This essay offers a survey and analysis of the principal methodologies adopted and the aims pursued by ‘modern’ historians of the common law in England, Canada, and America, from Blackstone's time to the opening of the twenty-first century.

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   Original analysis by eminent scholars that examine the most important legal cases to date. The Landmark Cases series is an occasional series of volumes which seek to highlight the historical antecedents of what are widely considered to be the leading cases in the common law.

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   law professors would suggest, just because society has outgrown or outpaced doctrines which served well in the past. It is to the past-to nine 'leading cases' by which the common law has been moved-that Professor Simpson devotes his most recent book, Leading Cases in the Common Law.

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   Does a greater understanding of cases generate general theories?

   • Greater understanding of cases does not generate general theories; instead it brings out the complexity of affairs and the extreme difficulty of producing generalizations which have any empirical validity.

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   What is a common law system?

   • This system, the common law, evolved out of the traditional practices followed in the Royal Courts in resolving disputes. One way in which we can view the common law, conceived as a complex body of abstract doctrine, is as a way of thinking about, of conceptualizing, or rationalizing what has traditionally been done.

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   What is a good example of a common law case?

   • 3 The Timeless Principles of the Common Law: Keeble v. Hickeringill (1707) Get access 4 Legal Science and Legal Absurdity: Jee v. Audley (1787) Get access 5 A Case of First Impression: Priestley v. Fowler (1837) Get access 6 The Beauty of Obscurity: Raffles v. Wichelhaus and Busch (1864) Get access

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   Is common law a complex body of abstract doctrine?

   • One way in which we can view the common law, conceived as a complex body of abstract doctrine, is as a way of thinking about, of conceptualizing, or rationalizing what has traditionally been done. Courts decide those few disputes which cannot otherwise be settled, and the notion of a decision is everywhere problematic.

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   This chapter begins with a brief discussion of the common law system. It then discusses the function of law reports, the invention of leading cases, iconoclastic theories of legal decision, empiricism and the study of cases, and law reports as sources.