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  • Essays on the History of Equity

    The history of equity takes in questions of philosophy, theology, jurisprudence and legal history.When we speak of 'equity', do we mean Aristotelian epieikeia, civilian aequitas, a theological or juridical conscience, the common law concept of the 'equity of the statute', or merely the rules applied by the Court of Chancery before 1875? The purpose of this volume is to chart the evolution of ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Epidemics and the Law from Plague to the Present

    This collection of essays presents a socio-legal history of epidemics from the medieval period to the present day.Building on previous studies of infectious diseases undertaken by social historians of medicine, this collection explores the histories of epidemics and disease by looking at the legal measures deployed against them.Whilst previous works have considered the mechanisms by which legal ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Pensions

    Law, Policy and Practice

    State pensions are the largest item in the UK social security budget, costing £96.7 billion in 2017/18. In the same year, 45.6 million people were members of UK occupational pension schemes (out of a total population of 66.4 million) and the total amount saved into workplace schemes in 2018 was £90.4 billion. A consequence of the pensions sector's large size has been that pensions law and social ... Read more

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  • Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract

    Series series Landmark Cases
    Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract offers twelve original essays by leading contract scholars. As with the essays in the companion volume, Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (Hart, 2006) each essay takes as its focus a particular leading case, and analyses that case in its historical or theoretical context. The cases range from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-centuries, and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution

    Series series Landmark Cases
    It is now well established that the law of unjust enrichment forms an important and distinctive part of the English law of obligations. Restitutionary awards for unjust enrichment and for wrongdoing are clearly recognised for what they are. But these are recent developments. Before the last decade of the twentieth century the very existence of a separate law of unjust enrichment was controversial, ... Read more

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  • Law and Society in England 1750-1950

    Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The World of Maritime and Commercial Law

    Essays in Honour of Francis Rose

    This collection of 20 essays contains recent work by legal scholars, practitioners and judges, all internationally renowned for their expertise in the fields of maritime and commercial law.For maritime lawyers, the book contains absorbing and important studies of the law governing maritime collisions, carriage of goods by sea (examining the meaning of 'actual carriage' in the Hamburg Rules, and ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The Restatement Third: Restitution and Unjust Enrichment

    Critical and Comparative Essays

    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    The publication of the Restatement Third: Unjust Enrichment and Restitution by the American Law Institute in July 2010 was an event of major importance, not only for the development of the law of unjust enrichment in the US, but also for global scholarship relating to this area of private law. The Restatement First appeared in 1937, and the Restatement Second was abandoned; hence the Restatement ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Landmark Cases in Equity

    Series series Landmark Cases
    Landmark Cases in Equity continues the series of essay collections which began with Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (2006) and continued with Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (2008) and Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (2010). It contains essays on landmark cases in the development of equitable doctrine running from the seventeenth century to recent times.The range, breadth and ... Read more

    $247.09 USD

  • Restitution of Overpaid Tax

    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    Since the decision of the House of Lords in Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Inland Revenue Commissioners [1993] AC 70, the law governing claims for restitution of overpaid tax has experienced rapid and profound evolution. This has been so not only in England, but also elsewhere in the common law world as well as on the European plane. The essays in this collection consider the new landscape, ... Read more

    $214.69 USD

  • Current Issues in Succession Law

    While continental and comparative lawyers have recently rediscovered succession law as an area of immense practical importance deserving greater academic attention, it is still a neglected field in England. This book aims to reinvigorate the English debate. It brings together contributions by leading academics and practitioners engaging with topical issues as well as questions of fundamental ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

  • Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort

    Series series Landmark Cases
    Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort contains thirteen original essays on leading tort cases, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day. It is the third volume in a series of collected essays on landmark cases (the previous two volumes having dealt with restitution and contract). The cases examined raise a broad range of important issues across the law of tort, including such ... Read more

    $60.79 USD