Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Second-Order Reasons, Uncertainty And Legal Theory, Stephen R. Perry
Second-Order Reasons, Uncertainty And Legal Theory, Stephen R. Perry
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Transformation Of American Civil Procedure: The Example Of Rule 11, Stephen B. Burbank
The Transformation Of American Civil Procedure: The Example Of Rule 11, Stephen B. Burbank
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Bracton, The Year Books, And The 'Transformation Of Elementary Legal Ideas' In The Early Common Law, David J. Seipp
Bracton, The Year Books, And The 'Transformation Of Elementary Legal Ideas' In The Early Common Law, David J. Seipp
Faculty Scholarship
The language of the common law has a life and a logic of its own, resilient through eight centuries of unceasing talk. Basic terms of the lawyer's specialized vocabulary, elementary conceptual distinctions, and modes of argument, which all go to make “thinking like a lawyer” possible, have proved remarkably durable in the literature of the common law. Two fundamental distinctions—between “real” and “personal” actions and between “possessory” and “proprietary” remedies—can be traced back to their early use in treatises of the first generations of professional common law judges and in reports of courtroom dialogue from the first generations of professional …