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Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History)
Heart versus Head JudgeMade Law in NineteenthCentury America - Studies in Legal History
Author: Peter Karsten
Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807823408
ISBN-10: 0807823406
Publication Date: 9/29/1997
Pages: 512
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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