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- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Ronnie A Traylor and Ann M. Traylor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Husqvarna Motor, et al., Defendants-Appellees
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Company, Chicago, 1993.
- Description:
- New trial granted where trial court improperly instructed on assumption of risk defense and issue of defective maul (whose use resulted in loss of plaintiff's eye) was not correctly put before jury
- Condition:
- Stapled, self-wraps; 11 pages
- Book No.:
- W-46374
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- torts
- Author:
- Title:
- Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corporation, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. County of DuPage, Defendant-Appellee/Cross-Appellant
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Co., Chicago, 1993.
- Description:
- Jury apportionment of damages where flood damaged audio tapes and like merchandise appropriate either as comparative negligence or inverse condemnation
- Condition:
- Stapled wraps; 13 pages
- Book No.:
- W-44862
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- constitutional law, torts
- Author:
- Title:
- Diane M. Cutting and Warren L. Cutting, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jerome Foods, Incorporated, Defendant-Appellee
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Co., Chicago, 1994.
- Description:
- Administrator of health plan not unreasonable in interpreting plan to require injured spouse of employee to sign over rights as condition of receiving benefits under plan, where plan, though not absolutely clear, could be so interpretated
- Condition:
- Stapled self wraps; 11 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48644
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- torts
- Author:
- Title:
- National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Baker & Mckenzie [etc.] Defendants-Appellants
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Publishing Company, Chicago, 1993.
- Description:
- Malpractice coverage not available where event triggering coverage occurred before lawyers event joined firm, and firm did not notify insurer as required by policy, even though on notice themselves
- Condition:
- Stapled, self-wraps; 8 pages
- Book No.:
- W-46359
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- torts, insurance law
- Author:
- Title:
- Harry F. Chaveriat, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Williams Pipe Line Company, Defendant-Appellee
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Co., Chicago, 1994.
- Description:
- New claim alleging additional pollution damage from second pipeline leak cannot be asserted where claim asserted late in case and can be subject of separate lawsuit
- Condition:
- Stapled self wraps; 16 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48685
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- torts, Probating, environmental law
- Author:
- Pollock, Frederick
- Title:
- The Law of Torts. A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising From Civil Wrongs in the Common Law, To Which is Added the Draft of a Code of Civil Wrongs Prepared for the Government of India
- Publisher:
- Stevens and Sonsrs, London, 1929.
- Description:
- With a brief piece by Maitland at page 585
- Condition:
- Book No.:
- W-19762
- Price:
- $ 150.00
- Category:
- torts
- Author:
- Owen, David G. (ed.).
- Title:
- Philosophical Foundations of Tort Law
- Publisher:
- Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket
- Book No.:
- W-69262
- Price:
- $ 85.00
- Category:
- torts, philosophy of law
- Author:
- Title:
- Rodi Yachts [et al] plaintiffs-appellees, v. National Marine. . .Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, and Transport Distributors. . .Third-Party Defendant/Fourth-Party Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lemont Harbor. . .Fourth-Party Defendant-Appellant
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Company, Chicago, 1993.
- Description:
- Industry custom which determines respective liability of joint tort, not adequately found by district court, which is ordered to investigate accordingly
- Condition:
- Stapled, self-wraps; 19 pages
- Book No.:
- W-46372
- Price:
- $ 10.00
- Category:
- admiralty, Commercial Law, torts, contracts
- Author:
- Title:
- Robert Chapter. . .as guardian of Audrey Chapter. . ., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Monfort of Colorado. . .Sipco. . .and Travelers Plan. . .Defendants-Appellants [etc.]
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Printing Co., Chicago, 1994.
- Description:
- Husband not entitled to reimbursement from health insurer where wife, thoughseriously injured, was drunk driving and thus engaged in criminal action excluded by policy
- Condition:
- Stapled self wraps; 5 pages
- Book No.:
- W-48408
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- criminal law, insurance law, torts
- Author:
- White, G. Edward
- Title:
- Tort Law in America, An Intellectual History
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, New York, 1980.
- Description:
- Condition:
- Original cloth, a very good copy in the dustjacket; with the Yale Law Journal review by A. Douglas Melamed and David Westin, rather crinkled, laid in
- Book No.:
- W-10012
- Price:
- $ 45.00
- Category:
- torts
- Author:
- Title:
- James Richardson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gallo Equipment Company, Defendant-Appellee
- Publisher:
- Midwest Law Publishing Co., Chicago, 1993.
- Description:
- Summary judgment properly granted where plaintiff's injury caused by equipment more than ten years old and product liability foreclosed by Indiana's statute of repose
- Condition:
- Stapled, self-wraps; 5 pages
- Book No.:
- W-44588
- Price:
- $ 25.00
- Category:
- Indiana, torts
- Author:
- March, John
- Title:
- March's Actions for Slander and Arbitrements. The First, Being A Collection . . . of what Words are Actionable in the Law . . . and of the Nature of A Libel. The Other, A Discourse, shewing what Arbitrements are good in Law [etc.]. Wing M573
- Publisher:
- Printed for Elizabeth Walbancke . . . in Grayes-Inn Lane, London, 1674.
- Description:
- The expanded edition of a pioneering work, rightly claiming to be the first treatise on two separate subject matters--slander (and libel) and arbitration--and, in Holdsworth's words, "an able attempt to extract some general principles from the cases"
- Condition:
- Contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, very light browning, else quite clean with the bookplates of the Earl of Roden and Rob Jocelyn; the Taussig copy
- Book No.:
- W-80252
- Price:
- $ 1250.00
- Category:
- libel and slander, torts, arbitration
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