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Description
“No subject is more intimately connected with the history and development of our law than common law pleading. In sharp contrast with the other great system of law, that founded by the Romans, the common law has not been the product of legislation, but of litigation. It has grown up in the atmosphere of courts of justice. Such a genesis would necessarily give it a strong procedural favor, and would tend to emphasize remedies at the expense of rights. Procedure might therefore be expected to play a much larger part in the development of the common law than in the development of the Roman law, and such has been the fact. To understand common law rights one must understand common law remedies, for the former were developed through the latter….
“A proper balance must be maintained between pleading as a method of analysis and pleading as a practical means of presenting cases for judicial decision. This aim the editor has constantly had in mind in selecting and arranging these cases.” --Preface
Publication Date
1914
Publisher
Callaghan and Company
City
Chicago
Keywords
Pleas, Pleading, Trials, Forms of action, Trial procedure, Casebooks, University of Michigan Law School
Disciplines
Civil Procedure | Common Law | Courts | Legal Education | Legal Profession | Litigation
Recommended Citation
Sunderland, Edson R. Cases on Procedure, Annotated. Common Law Pleading. Chicago: Callaghan and Co., 1914.
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Civil Procedure Commons, Common Law Commons, Courts Commons, Legal Education Commons, Legal Profession Commons, Litigation Commons
Comments
Series: Practice series (Callaghan and Company)
“Cases on Procedure: The Series. The present volume, on Common Law Pleading, is the third of a series of case-books which the editor hopes to prepare for the use of law students, covering the broad subject of Procedure….” --Introductory Note.