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Paperback Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America Book

ISBN: 1469629054

ISBN13: 9781469629056

Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America

(Part of the Studies in Legal History Series)

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Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern for the rights of parties rendered weak by inequitable...

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