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.

The Crisis

The Crisis
Author: Neil Longley York
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780865978959

The Crisis was a London weekly published between January 1775 and October 1776. It was the longest-running weekly pamphlet series printed in the British Atlantic world during those years. The Crisis lays claim to our attention because of its place in the rise of freedom of the press, its self-conscious attempt to create a transatlantic community of protest, and its targeting of the king as the source of political problems--but without attacking the institution of monarchy itself.

Magna Carta

Magna Carta
Author: William Sharp McKechnie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 642
Release: 1905
Genre: Constitutional history
ISBN:

The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent

The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent
Author: Neil Duxbury
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2021-08-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108898815

Common-law judgments tend to be more than merely judgments, for judges often make pronouncements that they need not have made had they kept strictly to the task in hand. Why do they do this? The Intricacies of Dicta and Dissent examines two such types of pronouncement, obiter dicta and dissenting opinions, primarily as aspects of English case law. Neil Duxbury shows that both of these phenomena have complex histories, have been put to a variety of uses, and are not amenable to being straightforwardly categorized as secondary sources of law. This innovative and unusual study casts new light on – and will prompt lawyers to pose fresh questions about – the common law tradition and the nature of judicial decision-making.