Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort

Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort
Author: Charles Mitchell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2010-02-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847315674

Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort contains thirteen original essays on leading tort cases, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day. It is the third volume in a series of collected essays on landmark cases (the previous two volumes having dealt with restitution and contract). The cases examined raise a broad range of important issues across the law of tort, including such diverse areas as acts of state and public nuisance, as well as central questions relating to the tort of negligence. Several of the essays place cases in their historical context in ways that change our understanding of the case's significance. Sometimes the focus is on drawing out previously neglected aspects of cases which have been – undeservedly – assigned minor importance. Other essays explore the judicial methodologies and techniques that worked to shape leading principles of tort law. So much of tort law turns on cases, and there are so many cases, that all but the most recent decisions have a tendency to become reduced to terse propositions of law, so as to keep the subject manageable. This collection shows how important it is, despite the constant temptation to compression, not to lose sight of the contexts and nuances which qualify and illuminate so many leading authorities.

Railway Economics

Railway Economics
Author: Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics
Publisher: Chicago, University Press [1912]
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1912
Genre: Cataloging, Cooperative
ISBN:

The Spectator

The Spectator
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1068
Release: 1908
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

The Development of Transportation in Modern England

The Development of Transportation in Modern England
Author: William T. Jackman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2019-04-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429614365

Published in 1962: In offering this work as a modest contribution to our knowledge of the economic development of England from the standpoint of transportation, the author must say, in the first place that he has endeavoured to adhere rigidly to the subject in hand, withour making deviations into collateral fields

An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland

An Historical Geography of Railways in Great Britain and Ireland
Author: David Turnock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351958933

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.