The transformation of American law, 1780-1860 /
In a remarkable book based on prodigious research, Morton J. Horwitz offers a sweeping overview of the emergence of a national (and modern) legal system from English and colonial antecedents. He treats the evolution of the common law as intellectual history and also demonstrates how the shifting vie...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1977.
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Colección: | Studies in legal history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The emergence of an instrumental conception of law
- The transformation in the conception of property
- Subsidization of economic growth through the legal system
- Competition and economic development
- The relation between the bar and commercial interests
- The triumph of contract
- The development of commercial law
- The rise of legal formalism.