Sir Frederick Pollock

it is at its worst when the author, as has been common in law-books, writes of himself in the third person.

but to you at least I shall say much in saying that from Willes I learnt to taste the Year Books, and to pursue the history of the law in authorities which not so long ago were collectively and compendiously despised as “black letter.

I claim it because the purpose of this book is to show that there really is a Law of Torts, not merely a number of rules of law about various kinds of torts—that this is a true living branch of the Common Law, not a collection of heterogeneous instances.

The Trade Disputes Act as a whole, and especially the fourth section thereof, is best described in the words of Sir Frederick Pollock:

The learned reader may see a few examples collected in a footnote, Pollock on Torts, 8th ed.

In the foregoing lectures we have surveyed a certain number of our lady the Common Law’s adventures, prosperous and otherwise.

Most unluckily some one got hold of a supposed Roman maxim, for which there is really no authority, that ‘personal actions die with the person.

It is Westminster that Sir Frederick Pollock has in mind when he writes: