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Book Reviews, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edwin D. Dickinson
Book Reviews, Victor H. Lane, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Edwin D. Dickinson
Michigan Law Review
The lawyer who, for the last two decades has kept abreast of the literature of the law, is appreciative of the fact that no branch of the old law has received such scientific and scholarly treatment, as has the law of evidence, and few of the more modern fields have been as thoroughly and intelligently cultivated. Led by Professor Thayer in that incomparable series of essays gathered under one title in his "Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law," followed by Professor Wigmore with his edition of Greenleaf's first volume, and later by his great work "Evidence in Trials …
Book Reviews, Willard T. Barbour, Joseph H. Drake
Book Reviews, Willard T. Barbour, Joseph H. Drake
Michigan Law Review
Judge Story's work appeared at a critical period in Aterican legal history. The bitterness toward England which lingered after the Revolution, intensified by the unhappy war of 182, was no doubt responsible for the hostility toward and suspicion of that peculiarly English institution, the common law.' Evidence is not wanting that our courts were drifting away from the common law doctrines and becoming more -responsive to the appeals of civil law. There was thus furnished a condition favorable to the reception of Roman law through some French form such as the Code Napolion. English equity, in particular, stood in a …