Lord Bramwell
historical figure · 4 works · 10 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Bramwell B. · Baron Bramwell · Bramwell · Bramwell L. J. · Bramwell L.J. · the late Lord Bramwell
in the texts
The Law of Torts
English judge of the classical period of tort jurisprudence.
Lord Blackburn and Lord Bramwell, who then rejoiced in their strength, are still with us.
The previous authorities are inconclusive, and the reasoning of Lord Bramwell’s (then Baron Bramwell’s) judgment is, I submit, unanswerable on principle.
Lord Bramwell, ib.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Judge described as the most convinced of individualists, whose private letter admitting he is 'something of a socialist' is offered as proof of confused public opinion.
yet Lord Bramwell himself writes to a friend, “I am something of a socialist.
The Genius of the Common Law
Common-law judge of the old school who professed to find no meaning in the equitable concept of constructive fraud.
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 …
Law in a Free State
Judge and correspondent who wrote to the journal Jus objecting to the author's view on the duty to obey or resist unjust laws.
How can it be the duty of any man to shoot him for so doing?
Lord Bramwell said that, as a citizen, he would either obey the law or leave the country.
The correspondence appeared in a paper called Jus, of which I was then editor, and was followed by a characteristic letter from the late Lord Bramwell: