The Common Lawyer

Author: Mark Gimenez
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748111247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Andy Prescott is the most laid-back young lawyer in Austin, Texas. Specialising in traffic law, he operates from a small room above a ramshackle tattoo parlour. He rides a trail bike and spends way too much time drinking beer in the sunshine. Ambition has never been Andy's strong point - he prefers to take it easy. That is, until one of Texas's wealthiest men walks into his office. On the spot, billionaire Russell Reeves retains Andy as his lawyer and, in exchange for some easy legal work, pays him more money than he has ever earned before. Andy's life is transformed. But nothing comes for free. Russell is a desperate man whose sole aim is to save his eight-year-old son, Zach, who is dying from leukemia. He is prepared to do anything - even if it means putting Andy's life in danger...

Origins of the Common Law

Author: Arthur Reed Hogue
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780865970540
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Written for the beginning student as well as the experienced scholar, this introductory analysis of the origin and early development or the English common law provides and excellent grounding for the early study of legal history. Between 1154, when Henry II became king, and 1307, when Edward I died, the common law underwent spectacular growth. The author begins with a discussion of the relationship between the early rules of common law and the social order they serve during this period and concludes with an extended commentary on the durability and continued growth of the common law in modern times.

Excellence of the Common Law

Author: Brent Allan Winters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and law
Languages : en
Pages : 958

Book Description

A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage

Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142365
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 990

Book Description
A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.

The Lost Lawyer

Author: Anthony T. Kronman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674539273
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of American lawyers were shaped by their allegiance to a distinctive ideal of professional excellence. In the last generation, however, this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it means for them personally to have chosen a life in the law.

Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage

Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195384202
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1023

Book Description
A comprehensive guide to legal style and usage, with practical advice on how to write clear, jargon-free legal prose. Includes style tips as well as definitions.

The cyclopedic dictionary of law

Author: Walter A. Shumaker
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876919454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 827

Book Description
Comprising the terms and phrases of American jurisprudence, including ancient and modern common law, international law, and numerous select titles from the civil law, the French and the Spanish law, etc.,etc. With an exhaustive collection of legal maxims.

Hobbes and the Law

Author: David Dyzenhaus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022754
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 253

Book Description
A collection of essays devoted to the legal thought of Thomas Hobbes, arguably the greatest political philosopher to write in English.

Collected Papers on English Legal History

Author: John Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131610219X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1908

Book Description
Over the last forty years, Sir John Baker has written on most aspects of English legal history, and this collection of his writings includes many papers that have been widely cited. Providing points of reference and foundations for further research, the papers cover the legal profession, the inns of court and chancery, legal education, legal institutions, legal literature, legal antiquities, public law and individual liberty, criminal justice, private law (including contract, tort and restitution) and legal history in general. An introduction traces the development of some of the research represented by the papers, and cross-references and new endnotes have been added. A full bibliography of the author's works is also included.

A law dictionary and glossary

Author: Alexander M. Burrill
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120336
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 730

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.