Principles of Torts and Contracts, Vol. 1 of 3

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Excerpt from Principles of Torts and Contracts, Vol. 1 of 3: A Short Digest of the Common Law, Chiefly Founded Upon the Works of Addison, With Illustrative Cases In theory, the Common Law of England consists of a system of immemorial rules, of which the cases decided in Her Majesty's Courts are only the exemplification. Practically, however, it is very well known that to a very large extent judicial decisions originate that which they profess only to apply. In books of practice, the conventional theory is rightly ignored: the form is immersed in the matter: instead of the case illustrating the rule, the rule is deduced from the case, and our text-books are, in fact, an index and guide to the Reports. To the beginner, however, the inversion of what might appear to be the natural order of legal study is not a little perplexing. The attention is constantly diverted, and the memory confused, by the necessity of separating the abstract from the concrete. In the present work, which is designed to meet the requirements of the student, I have endeavoured to set forth the first principles of the Common Law in as brief and axiomatic a form as possible, and to each chapter I have appended a short summary of cases, which may serve to illustrate the principal positions laid down in the text. I have adopted the general scope of the great works of Addison, as affording the best existing exposition of the law, in the hope that this merely elementary book may serve as a useful stepping-stone to the study of its more ponderous originals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.