A Short Consideration Of The Law Of Negligence

Author : Morton Barrows
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330158401
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Law of Negligence written by Morton Barrows and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Handbook on the Law of Negligence Perhaps no single subdivision of general law has, in the last decade, so largely engrossed the attention of our courts, both state and federal, as that of Negligence. The most common form in which litigation of this class has obtruded into the courts is that of personal injury cases, so called. It has spread through the country like an epidemic, but, unlike the ordinary epidemics of physical disease, it gives no sign of passing away, and fairly promises to become endemic and permanent. At least two results are already conspicuous: On the one hand, the increased precautions against physical injury and legal liability which are being taken by property owners and employers of labor; and, on the other, the more precise definition and exact enunciation by the courts of the involved law. The former appeals more directly to the laity; the latter, to the legal profession; but the two are inseparable, and form a potent factor for the public weal. It is in these changed conditions - the enforced attitude of property holder and employer, the altered rights of citizen and laborer, and the recent adjustments of these complex relations by the courts - that the present work finds its raison d'etre. It is not claimed for it that it is a treatise, or that it is an exhaustive consideration of the subject. The aim has been to fairly and impartially state the settled law, and to so place before the reader the mooted points and conflicting decisions that he may arrive at his own conclusions, irrespective of any expressed sentiment on the part of the author. In general, the text is the authors expression of the gist of the law as found in the leading cases and decisions of the courts of last resort; its only claim to merit lying in its accuracy and simplicity. In the preparation of the chapter devoted to "Death by Wrongful Act," extended use has been made of the excellent work on that subject by Mr. Francis B. Tiffany. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.