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- Liber Placitandi. A Book of Special Pleadings: Containing Precedents of Pleas in Abatement, Declarations, Barrs, Replications, Rejoynders, Demurrers, Issues, and Judgments, In the now most Common and Ordinary Actions [etc.]. Wing L1951A. Folio
- Publisher:
- Printed for J. Place, and T. Basset [and thirteen others], London, 1674.
- Description:
- A pioneering work, "[t]he first book to classify torts as a separate category in the modern sense" in John Baker's words, distinguishing between nuisance, deceit, conversion, and negligence, all as part of "Actions sur le Case sur Torts General"
- Condition:
- Modern 3/4 brown calf over cloth boards, the title somewhat dusty, light browning, but a good usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-77968
- Price:
- $ 550.00
- Category:
- pleading, torts
- Author:
- Bohlen, Francis H.
- Title:
- Cases on the Law of Torts. Fourth Edition by Fowler V. Harper
- Publisher:
- The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, Indianapolis, 1941.
- Description:
- One of the most important early American casebooks on torts (originally appearing in 1915), and the first edition to be undertaken by Harper, who had drawn upon Bohlen's scholarship and advice in writing his own monograph on the subject
- Condition:
- Original blue buckram, considerable underlining; a usable copy
- Book No.:
- W-62618
- Price:
- $ 50.00
- Category:
- Casebooks, torts
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, Trusts (Prudent Investor Rule). Proposed Final Draft
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1990.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26074
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- torts, trusts and estates
- Author:
- Bohun, William
- Title:
- Declarations and Pleadings In the most usual Actions brought in the several Courts of King's-Bench and Common-Pleas at Westminster, viz Scandal of Peers . . . Slander of Common Persons . . . Case For Non-feasance and Negligences, Mal-fesances and Torts
- Publisher:
- Printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling [etc.], London, 1733.
- Description:
- First edition of one of Bohun's several works following the 1732 act requiring that English be used in the Royal courts--and an early work using the word 'torts' in its title, distinguishing between negligence as nonfeasance and torts as malfeasance
- Condition:
- Contemporary polished calf, later handwritten label, the boards slightly bowed and the spine inkstained, else especially fresh; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78967
- Price:
- $ 225.00
- Category:
- Procedure, torts, libel and slander
- Author:
- Widiss, Alan I., et al
- Title:
- No-Fault Automobile Insurance in Action, The Experiences in Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware and Michigan
- Publisher:
- Oceana Publications, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, 1977.
- Description:
- Four reports issued under the auspices of the Council on Law-Related Studies, whose president, David Cavers, contributes a foreword and is co-author of the Massachusetts' investigation
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-60391
- Price:
- $ 35.00
- Category:
- law of automobiles, torts, insurance law, Massachusetts, Florida, Delaware, Michigan
- Author:
- Hale, William B.
- Title:
- Handbook on the Law of Damages. Second Edition by Roger W. Cooley
- Publisher:
- West Publishing Company, St. Paul, 1912.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original tan buckram, gilt, the final blank excised, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-91695
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- Law of Damages, torts
- Author:
- Harari, Abraham
- Title:
- The Place of Negligence in the Law of Torts
- Publisher:
- The Law Book Co. of Australasia Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1962.
- Description:
- A work of considerable ambition written by an Israeli academic, "filled to overflowing with penetrating analyses, original ideas and novel concepts", and professedly seeking to offer a new analysis of the notion of negligence in the law of torts
- Condition:
- Original black cloth, gilt, a trifle marked, else a very good copy
- Book No.:
- W-74236
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- torts
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, Trusts (Prudent Investor Rule). Preliminary Draft No. 4
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1989.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26076
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- torts, trusts and estates
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, Torts: Products Liability. Proposed Final Draft
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1997.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26073
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- torts
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, Unfair Competition. Tentative Draft No. 4
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1993.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26079
- Price:
- $ 17.50
- Category:
- torts, trusts and estates, Anti-trust
- Author:
- Title:
- Law of Actions: Being An Exact, Brief and Methodical Collection of all adjudg'd Cases out of all the Reports of the Law to this Day; And likewise from Roll's Abridgment [with] the Reason that Rules it Render'd obvious to the meanest Capacity [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Nutt . . . for John Hartley [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- A rare work devoted almost entirely to action on the case, as it began "to produce the modern categories under which our substantive law is grouped", contrasting tort and contract, with much on slander, assumpsit and "doing, not doing, or misdoing"
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf over marbled boards, some browning, ex-library, else a sound copy with the blank before the title page; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-78801
- Price:
- $ 1100.00
- Category:
- contracts, torts, Procedure, Abridgements, reports of cases, libel and slander
- Author:
- Title:
- Law of Actions: Being An Exact, Brief and Methodical Collection of all adjudg'd Cases out of all the Reports of the Law to this Day; And likewise from Roll's Abridgment [with] the Reason that Rules it Render'd obvious to the meanest Capacity [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by John Nutt . . . for John Hartley [etc.], London, 1710.
- Description:
- A rare work devoted almost entirely to action on the case, as it began "to produce the modern categories under which our substantive law is grouped", contrasting tort and contract, with much on slander, assumpsit and "doing, not doing, or misdoing"
- Condition:
- Contemporary blind-ruled calf, rubbed, the label largely lacking, a bit of browning and staining, yet generally well preserved; six copies in ESTC
- Book No.:
- W-74382
- Price:
- $ 1500.00
- Category:
- contracts, torts, Procedure, Abridgements, reports of cases, libel and slander
- Author:
- Title:
- Restatement of the Law, Torts: Products Liability. Tentative Draft No. 1
- Publisher:
- American Law Institute, Philadelphia, 1994.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-26072
- Price:
- $ 15.00
- Category:
- torts
- Author:
- Ames, James Barr and Jeremiah Smith
- Title:
- A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts. Second Edition [of Volume One]. Two Volumes
- Publisher:
- Harvard Law Review Publishing Association, Cambridge, 1893-1900.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Brown cloth, very worn, hinge cracked, underlining; a working set
- Book No.:
- W-65278
- Price:
- $ 125.00
- Category:
- admiralty, Casebooks, maritime law, reports of cases, torts
- Author:
- Bergstrom, Randolph E.
- Title:
- Courting Danger, Injury and Law in New York City, 1870-1910
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1992.
- Description:
- Condition:
- A very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-64159
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- torts, New York, 19TH CENTURY
- Author:
- Title:
- The Law of Actions on the Case for Torts and Wrongs . . . Viz. I. For Trover and Conversion of Goods. II. For Malicious Prosecutions. III. For Nusances. IV. For Disceits and on Warranties. V. On the Common Custom against Carriers, Innkeepers [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling (Assigns of Edw. Sayer) &c., London, 1720.
- Description:
- The rare first edition of the first work to employ the word 'torts' in its title and in our modern sense, and, as Milsom observed, "as close to being a text-book as anything available to Blackstone" outside the land law; no copy in England in ESTC
- Condition:
- Modern 1/4 calf, definite browning, the top of the title cut away affecting the ruled border but not its words, with the half title; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80090
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- torts, law of nuisance
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