The Law of Bailment

The Law of Bailment
Author: Robert Tanha
Publisher: Irwin Law
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781552215159

The Law of Bailment explores all aspects of a bailment transaction, from the perspective of both the bailee and the bailor. It attempts to simplify the rules of bailment and make them more intelligible for law students, lawyers, judges, and members of the public who are seeking to understand, or better understand, a bailment law rule. This is done using numerous examples arising from the caselaw, and by providing the reader with statements of law on all aspects of bailment that are clear and understandable -- but at the same time, appropriately qualified, meaningful, and usable. In particular, this book highlights the importance of the common law of bailment to transactions that people engage in every day, such as depositing their goods for storage with a business or lending a friend their vehicle to drive for the weekend while they go out of town. The general concepts of the law of bailment -- including the sui generis nature of a bailment, the bailee's reverse onus of proof, and the bailee's overarching duty of safekeeping -- are discussed at length. The text distinguishes bailment from other types of legal obligation that may arise in circumstances similar to those triggering a bailment, including trust, conversion, consignment, and licence, to demonstrate that the law treats bailments in a singularly distinct manner. The important topic of sub-bailment is reviewed and found to present unique challenges not encountered in ordinary bailment transactions. Finally, The Law of Bailment notes any major discrepancies in the caselaw, analyzes these issues, and offers up viable solutions throughout the book.

The Law of Obligations

The Law of Obligations
Author: Reinhard Zimmermann
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 1316
Release: 1996
Genre: Contracts (Roman law)
ISBN: 9780198764267

This book is widely regarded as one of the most remarkable achievements in Roman Law and Comparative Law scholarship this century - a fact attested to by the universal acclaim with which it has been received throughout Europe, America, and beyond. As a work of Roman Law scholarship it fusesthe vast volume of 20th century scholarship on the Roman law of obligations into a clear and very readable (and in many ways original) account of the law. As a work of comparative law it traces the transformation of the Roman law of obligations over the centuries into what is now modern German,English and South African law, presenting the reader with a contrast between these legal systems which is unique both in its scope and its depth. As a whole the book is written with a deep understanding of human nature and of many social, economic, and other forces that determine the face of thelaw.

A Concise History of the Common Law

A Concise History of the Common Law
Author: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Total Pages: 828
Release: 2001
Genre: Common law
ISBN: 1584771372

Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.

Property on Trial

Property on Trial
Author: Eric Tucker
Publisher: Irwin Law
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2012
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781552212967

Co-Published with the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Property on Trial is a collection of 14 studies of Canadian property law disputes -- some well-known, some more obscure -- that have helped to shape the contours of the principles and rules of property law over 150 years. These studies, written by some of Canada's leading legal historians, range in time from a discussion of a nineteenth-century dispute over the ownership of seal pelts in Newfoundland to modern questions of what constitutes private property in a digital age. They investigate the relationship between private and public interests in property; the limits of private property owners' rights in relation to others, particularly neighbours and family; and the intersection of property law principles with other branches of the law, including criminal law, family law, and human rights. The authors describe, in rich detail, the social, cultural, and political contexts in which the events unfolded, the backgrounds and personalities of the litigants, the skills of the lawyers, and the judicial attitudes of the day. On the one hand, Property on Trial is a collection of thoughtful and compelling stories about conflict in a wide variety of contexts, each with its own heroines and heroes, villains and ne'er-do-wells, winners and losers. On the other, it is an insightful look at the history of property law doctrine in Canada.

Property

Property
Author: Thomas W. Merrill
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 019531476X

Property is an institution that occupies a central place in law, politics, economics, philosophy, and everyday life. Law plays a major role in defining property. In The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property, esteemed professors Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith provide students with a coherent and motivated account of how property law works, along with its impacts on larger concerns.