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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469629054
ISBN13:9781469629056
Release Date:December 2015
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:512 Pages
Weight:1.71 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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