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Tort As A Substitute For Revenge, Scott Hershovitz
Tort As A Substitute For Revenge, Scott Hershovitz
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In 1872, the Supreme Court of Illinois decided a case called Alcorn v Mitchell. It was not the first litigation between the parties. Some years earlier, Alcorn had sued Mitchell for trespass. That suit did not go well, and at the close of the trial, just after the court adjourned, Alcorn spit in Mitchell’s face. Mitchell then turned the tables and sued Alcorn for battery. He won a judgment for $1,000, which was a lot of money back then—depending on how you think about the change in value of money over time, the present day equivalent would range from just …
Women Behind The Wheel: Gender And Transportation Law, 1860-1930, Margo Schlanger
Women Behind The Wheel: Gender And Transportation Law, 1860-1930, Margo Schlanger
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Gender difference is only infrequently mentioned in recent negligence cases. To contemporary (mostly non-essentialist) eyes, gender difference seems to appear only mildly relevant to tort law's area of concern: care and harm to others and self. But in the early days of modern tort law, when gender differences loomed larger in the consciousness of American jurists, and unabashedly so, judicial opinions more frequently grappled with how negligence doctrine ought to take account of female difference. This chapter explores opinions published between approximately 1860 and 1930 that illuminate this issue in cases involving women drivers and passengers of cars and wagons. …
A Perspective On The Michigan Law Of Damages, John W. Reed
A Perspective On The Michigan Law Of Damages, John W. Reed
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So also the subject of damages. There are some general principles, but damages is not a coherent body of law. It is small wonder that no one is writing books about it and that law schools do not provide courses in it. The standard, most widely cited text is McCormick on Damages, yet that book was published in 1935. There is no more recent book of consequence bearing that title. Professor Dan Dobbs's 1973 volume entitled Remedies contains, as one part of the book, an excellent analysis of recent damages developments; but McCormick continues to be the benchmark. As a …
Pleading, Edson R. Sunderland
Pleading, Edson R. Sunderland
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Professor Sunderland's 780-page chapter on Pleadings: "Pleadings are statements, in logical and legal form, of causes of action and grounds of defense, terminating in a single proposition affirmed on one side and denied on the other. They are intended to form the foundation of the proof to be submitted on the trial, and should advise the parties to an action what the opposite party relies upon either as a cause of action or defense or objection as the case may be." Preceded by a 41-page outline.
Physicians And Surgeons, Harry B. Hutchins
Physicians And Surgeons, Harry B. Hutchins
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Professor Hutchins's entry regarding the subject of the title. Includes voluminous cross-references and precedents. Begins with a five-page outline.