Add to ORKGBetween 1820 and 1850 American legal commentators became obsessed with whether legislatures should codify, either in whole or in part, the common law of the American states. Indeed, [a]lmost every law writer after 1825 felt compelled to include his views [on codification] in his works of whatever sort. The enormous literature that emerged from this period survives today to fascinate modern legal historians, who seem to have developed their own obsession for the codification issue. As Lawrence Friedman has said
Part II of this Article briefly sketches the codification movement in the United States and the cond...
In 1895, Montana adopted a version of the Field Civil Code--a massive law originally drafted by New ...
“A code, or not a code—that is the question!”. Many countries asked themselves that very question. I...
Between 1820 and 1850 American legal commentators became obsessed with whether legislatures should c...
Between 1820 and 1850 American legal commentators became obsessed with whether legislatures should c...
Attempting to survey the entire sweep of the nineteenth-century American codification debate is well...
This article first critically examines and disputes the theses of Professors Gilmore and Friedman. ...
In the decades following the Civil War, the American legal profession engaged in a heated debate abo...
The transition from colony to nation involved difficult readjustments in the thinking and behavioral...
At the end of the nineteenth century, the American legal community engaged in an impassioned debate ...
The Article documents that the general failure of the nineteenth century movement to codify American...
Professor Nelson\u27s Americanization of the Common Law records the conclusions of a mighty research...
throughout the world. Legal scholars, however, have focused attention on the history of codification...
The Founding Fathers, their children, and their grandchildren found themselves living in a new natio...
Private law codification is not as indispensable to continental legal culture as standard legal hist...
Part II of this Article briefly sketches the codification movement in the United States and the cond...
In 1895, Montana adopted a version of the Field Civil Code--a massive law originally drafted by New ...
“A code, or not a code—that is the question!”. Many countries asked themselves that very question. I...
Between 1820 and 1850 American legal commentators became obsessed with whether legislatures should c...
Between 1820 and 1850 American legal commentators became obsessed with whether legislatures should c...
Attempting to survey the entire sweep of the nineteenth-century American codification debate is well...
This article first critically examines and disputes the theses of Professors Gilmore and Friedman. ...
In the decades following the Civil War, the American legal profession engaged in a heated debate abo...
The transition from colony to nation involved difficult readjustments in the thinking and behavioral...
At the end of the nineteenth century, the American legal community engaged in an impassioned debate ...
The Article documents that the general failure of the nineteenth century movement to codify American...
Professor Nelson\u27s Americanization of the Common Law records the conclusions of a mighty research...
throughout the world. Legal scholars, however, have focused attention on the history of codification...
The Founding Fathers, their children, and their grandchildren found themselves living in a new natio...
Private law codification is not as indispensable to continental legal culture as standard legal hist...
Part II of this Article briefly sketches the codification movement in the United States and the cond...
In 1895, Montana adopted a version of the Field Civil Code--a massive law originally drafted by New ...
“A code, or not a code—that is the question!”. Many countries asked themselves that very question. I...