Bowen L.J.
historical figure · 3 works · 8 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Bowen L. J. · Lord Bowen · Bowen · Bowen, Lord Justice · the late Lord Bowen
in the texts
The Law of Torts
Judge who is quoted as elaborating more fully on Lord Mansfield's property-tracing rule.
has more fully expressed it, the cases under this head are those “in which property, or the proceeds or value of property, belonging to another, have been appropriated by the deceased person and added to his own estate or moneys.
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Judge quoted at length describing the mercantile world's alienation from the bankruptcy law.
The state of things as late as the beginning of the reign of Victoria (1837) is thus described by Lord Bowen:
“The great commercial world, alienated and scared by the divergence of the English bankruptcy law from their own habits and notions of right and wrong, avoided the court of bankruptcy as they would the plague.
Thus writes the late Lord Bowen:
The Genius of the Common Law
Judge who countered Bramwell's and Jessel's views by observing that Jessel had underrated the resources of the Common Law.
But, while Bramwell declared that he could attach no meaning to constructive fraud (having satisfied himself, presumably, that the constructive possession and constructive delivery of modern commercial law were simpler notions), Bowen could, with the utmost courtesy, and more justly and profitably, point out that Jessel, surpassed by none among recent equity lawyers, and perhaps equaled only by Ca …