The Law of Bailment
The Law of Bailment

Author: Robert Tanha

Publisher: Irwin Law

Published: 2019-11-21

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9781552215159

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The Law of Bailment explores all aspects of a bailment transaction, from the perspective of both the bailee and the bailor. It attempts to simplify the rules of bailment and make them more intelligible for law students, lawyers, judges, and members of the public who are seeking to understand, or better understand, a bailment law rule. This is done using numerous examples arising from the caselaw, and by providing the reader with statements of law on all aspects of bailment that are clear and understandable -- but at the same time, appropriately qualified, meaningful, and usable. In particular, this book highlights the importance of the common law of bailment to transactions that people engage in every day, such as depositing their goods for storage with a business or lending a friend their vehicle to drive for the weekend while they go out of town. The general concepts of the law of bailment -- including the sui generis nature of a bailment, the bailee's reverse onus of proof, and the bailee's overarching duty of safekeeping -- are discussed at length. The text distinguishes bailment from other types of legal obligation that may arise in circumstances similar to those triggering a bailment, including trust, conversion, consignment, and licence, to demonstrate that the law treats bailments in a singularly distinct manner. The important topic of sub-bailment is reviewed and found to present unique challenges not encountered in ordinary bailment transactions. Finally, The Law of Bailment notes any major discrepancies in the caselaw, analyzes these issues, and offers up viable solutions throughout the book.

A Dictionary of Law
A Dictionary of Law

Author: Jonathan Law

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 0199664927

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Written in a clear and jargon-free style, this dictionary is useful to anyone without a legal qualification who comes into contact with the law in the United Kingdom or any Commonwealth country where the legal system is founded on English law.

Bailment
Bailment

Author: N. E. Palmer

Publisher: Law Book Company for New South Wales Bar Association

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 1174

ISBN-13:

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Property
Property

Author: Thomas W. Merrill

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 019531476X

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Property is an institution that occupies a central place in law, politics, economics, philosophy, and everyday life. Law plays a major role in defining property. In The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Property, esteemed professors Thomas W. Merrill and Henry E. Smith provide students with a coherent and motivated account of how property law works, along with its impacts on larger concerns.

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract
Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract

Author: Charles Mitchell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-05-30

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1847317103

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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 deal with an array of contractual doctrines. Some of the essays call for their case to be stripped of its landmark status, whilst others argue that it has more to offer than we have previously appreciated. The particular historical context of these landmark cases, as revealed by the authors, often shows that our current assumptions about the case and what it stands for are either mistaken, or require radical modification. The book also explores several common themes which are fundamental to the development of the law of contract: for instance, the influence of commercial expectations, appeals to 'reason' and the significance of particular judicial ideologies and techniques.

Property on Trial
Property on Trial

Author: Eric Tucker

Publisher: Irwin Law

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781552212967

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Co-Published with the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Property on Trial is a collection of 14 studies of Canadian property law disputes -- some well-known, some more obscure -- that have helped to shape the contours of the principles and rules of property law over 150 years. These studies, written by some of Canada's leading legal historians, range in time from a discussion of a nineteenth-century dispute over the ownership of seal pelts in Newfoundland to modern questions of what constitutes private property in a digital age. They investigate the relationship between private and public interests in property; the limits of private property owners' rights in relation to others, particularly neighbours and family; and the intersection of property law principles with other branches of the law, including criminal law, family law, and human rights. The authors describe, in rich detail, the social, cultural, and political contexts in which the events unfolded, the backgrounds and personalities of the litigants, the skills of the lawyers, and the judicial attitudes of the day. On the one hand, Property on Trial is a collection of thoughtful and compelling stories about conflict in a wide variety of contexts, each with its own heroines and heroes, villains and ne'er-do-wells, winners and losers. On the other, it is an insightful look at the history of property law doctrine in Canada.