Oliver Wendell Holmes
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Holmes · O. W. Holmes · Holmes J. · Mr. Justice Holmes
in the texts
The Law of Torts
American jurist and legal scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes, author of "The Common Law," whose chapter on trespass and negligence is treated as the leading modern account of the historical development of liability for unintended harm.
Holmes 85;
Holmes 103.
Justice Holmes’s chapter on “Trespass and Negligence,” and Mr.
Institutes of Roman Law
Author of The Common Law, cited on the primitive conception of noxal liability.
Holmes, Common Law, chap.