Author: Courtney Stanhope Kenny

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9781330585290

Excerpt from A Selection of Cases Illustrative of the English Law of Tort The favourable reception given to my volume of cases on the Law of Crime leads me to offer to the public a similar volume upon the Law of Tort. On this subject I have, for upwards of ten years past, delivered an annual course of lectures at Cambridge to men entering on the study of English Law. To arouse in their minds, from the outset, an intelligent interest in so difficult a subject as Tort and in the unfamiliar art of interpreting judiciary law, I have found it necessary to make constant reference to actual cases. For the purpose of such references, I have sought far and wide for cases that - from the nature of their facts or from the excellence of the judgments - were likely to impress the student's memory with a vivid illustration, or a terse exposition, of any important principle. Such decisions I have not hesitated to take from America or India, if they laid down English doctrine. And I have sometimes found it useful to supplement even the reports of our own English cases by adding details from the contemporary newspapers. But experience has shewn me that difficulties in obtaining ready access to law-books frequently hamper the student in utilizing his references to Reports, and make it highly desirable for him to have on his own shelves some compact collection of suitable cases. 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.