the common law

1. The Law of Torts Sir Frederick Pollock 3 authority · 2 neutral 5 citations · 7 passages

   ch. 113 7 passages anchored here

   Cited by chapter title and page number as the leading modern treatment of the historical development of trespass and negligence.

   Justice Holmes’s chapter on “Trespass and Negligence,” and Mr.

2. An Essay on the Trial by Jury Lysander Spooner 2 authority 2 citations · 6 passages

   ch. 18 2 passages anchored here · appendix.↩, taxation.↩ 4 passages anchored here

   The common law is relied upon throughout as the legitimate standard against modern statutory practice

   To accomplish this object, they have in modern times held it to be unnecessary that indictments should charge, as by the common law they were required to do, that an act was done “wickedly,” “feloniously,” “with malice aforethought,” or in any other manner that implied a criminal intent, without which there can be no criminality;

3. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 authority 1 citation

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   Cited directly by title, author, and chapter.

   We know that the master of a slave did not escape such liability by his voluntary manumission (on the primitive conception of noxal liability, cf.

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