Dimensions of Private Law: Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Legal Reasoning

Stephen Waddams0521816432, 9780521816434, 9780511065194

Anglo-American private law has been a far more complex phenomenon than has been usually recognized. Attempts to reduce it to a single explanatory principle, or to a precisely classified or categorized map, scheme, or diagram, are liable to distort the past by omitting or marginalizing material inconsistent with proposed principles or schemes. This study will be of importance to all who are interested in property, tort, contract, unjust enrichment, legal reasoning, legal method, the history of the common law, and the relation between legal theory and legal history.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
CONTENTS……Page 7
PREFACE……Page 8
TABLE OF CASES……Page 10
1 Introduction: the mapping of legal concepts……Page 27
2 Johanna Wagner and the rival opera houses……Page 49
3 Liability for economic harms……Page 66
4 Reliance……Page 83
5 Liability for physical harms……Page 106
6 Profits derived from wrongs……Page 133
7 Domestic obligations……Page 153
8 Interrelation of obligations……Page 168
9 Property and obligation……Page 198
10 Public interest and private right……Page 217
11 Conclusion: the concept of legal mapping……Page 248
WORKS CITED……Page 260
INDEX……Page 266