A Treatise On The Law Of Torts Or The Wrongs Which Arise Independently Of Contract Classic Reprint

Author : Frederick Pollock
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ISBN 13 : 9781330518724
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book The Law of Torts written by Frederick Pollock and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Law of Torts: A Treatise on the Principles of Obligations Arising From Civil Wrongs in the Common Law: To Which Is Added the Draft of a Code of Civil Wrongs Prepared for the Government of India My Dear Holmes, A preface is a formal and a tedious thing at best; it is at its worsts when the author, as has been common in law-books, writes of himself in the third person. Yet there are one or two things I wish to say on this occasion, and cannot well say in the book itself; by your leave, therefore, I will so far trespass on your friendship as to send the book to you with an open letter of introduction. It may seem a mere artifice, but the assurance of your sympathy will enable me to speak more freely and naturally, even in print, than if my words were directly addressed to the profession at large. Nay more, I would fain sum up in this slight token the brotherhood that subsists, and we trust ever shall, between all true followers of the Common Law here and on your side of the water; and give it to be understood, for my own part, how much my work owes to you and to others in America, mostly citizens of your own Commonwealth, of whom some are known to me only by their published writing, some by commerce of letters; there are some also, fewer than I could wish, whom I have had the happiness of meeting face to face. 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.