
Description
A legal treatise on how the common law developed, beginning with civil and criminal liability and its historical roots. Holmes traces how early legal ideas shaped by vengeance gave way to modern rules, and presents law as a product of history and social needs.
About this book
The Common Law is an ebook by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935). This edition runs to roughly 417 pages, about 8.5 hours of reading at a typical pace.
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About the Author
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841–1935) has one book in the BigBookHub catalogue: The Common Law.



