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Hilliard, Francis: The Elements of Law Being a Comprehensive Summary of American Civil... 2002

Hilliard, Francis. The Elements of Law; Being a Comprehensive Summary of American Civil Jurisprudence. For the Use of Students, Men of Business, and General Readers. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1835. xv, 345, v pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584771883; ISBN-10: 1584771887. Hardcover. New. * Hilliard [1806-1878] was a New England lawyer and prolific legal writer whose works set the standard for later law texts. "At the time that he wrote, judges and lawyers lacked legal treatises which cited American decisions and showed how far the English common law had been followed by American courts or modified to suit new conditions. Textbooks presenting cases from all states were needed in order to encourage the development of national judge-made law rather than particularistic local doctrines. Hilliard was one of the first and most voluminous of the authors who met these needs." DAB V:53. His vast legal knowledge is aptly employed in this important early textbook which provides a summary of the basic principles of American law. His success with this first work, which went into a second edition, led Hilliard to go on to write numerous other well-regarded treatises, many of which went into numerous editions, including The Law of Torts (1859), the first English treatise on the subject. Dictionary of American Biography V: 53-54. Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University (1909) I: 925. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 5393.

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Hilliard, Francis: The Law of Torts, or Private Wrongs. 2006

Hilliard, Francis. The Law of Torts, or Private Wrongs. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1859. Two volumes. xxxviii, 540; xxxvii, 719 pp. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-541-6. ISBN-10: 1-58477-541-6. Cloth. New. * Reprint of the first edition. This was the first English-language treatise on the subject. As the Dictionary of American Biography points out, it marked the "beginning of a revolution in legal thought" because it was the first to approach torts as a distinct legal category. Before Hilliard, "practical text-writers...regarded such wrongs as too divergent in nature for unified treatment and merely discussed some distinct wrong" (V:53-54). Hilliard [1806-1878], a Harvard-educated attorney who lived in Boston, was a prolific and distinguished author of treatises on jurisprudence, real property, contracts, business law and other subjects.

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Parsons, Theophilus: The Political, Personal and Property Rights of a Citizen of the United, 2004

Parsons, Theophilus. The Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a Citizen of the United States, How to Exercise and Preserve Them. Together with I. A Treatise on the Rules of Organization and Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies; II. A Glossary of Law Terms in Common Use. Hartford: S.S. Scranton and Company, 1875. xvi, 744 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002044367. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-319-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-319-7. Cloth. * This book outlines the political rights of American citizens and maintains the importance of the rights of the individual. A discussion of the United States Constitution and the constitutions of the states and territories is followed by an overview of personal rights. The book concludes with a digest of family, property and business law relevant to personal and property rights. The extensive appendix includes a glossary of common law terms and a treatise on the rules of order in deliberative bodies. Parsons [1797-1882] was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University from 1848 to 1870 and the author of several popular treatises.

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Theophilus Parsons: The Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a Citizen of the United States. How to Exercise and How to Preserve Them. S. S. Scranton and Company 1875 ISBN: B000QXLIXE
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Parsons, Theophilus. The Political, Personal, and Property Rights of a Citizen of the United States, How to Exercise and Preserve Them. Together with I. A Treatise on the Rules of Organization and Procedure in Deliberative Assemblies; II. A Glossary of Law Terms in Common Use. Hartford: S.S. Scranton and Company, 1875. xvi, 744 pp. Reprinted 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002044367. ISBN-13: 978-1-58477-319-1. ISBN-10: 1-58477-319-7. Cloth. $125. * This book outlines the political rights of American citizens and maintains the importance of the rights of the individual. A discussion of the United States Constitution and the constitutions of the states and territories is followed by an overview of personal rights. The book concludes with a digest of family, property and business law relevant to personal and property rights. The extensive appendix includes a glossary of common law terms and a treatise on the rules of order in deliberative bodies. Parsons [1797-1882] was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University from 1848 to 1870 and the author of several popular treatises.

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