: James Coolidge Carter
: Law, Its Origin, Growth and Function Being a Course of Lectures Prepared for Delivery Before the Law School of Harvard University
: Forgotten Books
: 9780243706631
: 1
: CHF 18.60
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: Sonstiges
: English
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. After his retirement from active practice, he determined to devote a portion of his leisure to writing a somewhat more important and complete expression of his views on these topics than had been contained in his former pamphlets and addresses but at the suggestion of President Eliot, of Harvard University, he substituted for this proposed work a series of lectures to be delivered before the Law School of that University. I find among his papers a brief memorandum in his handwriting, evidently written before this change of purpose and intended as a suggestion for a preface to the work which he at first designed to write. It is endorsed By Way of a Possible Preface, and is as follows.