Heart versus Head: Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America

by Peter Karsten

Book Overview

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern for the rights of parties rendered weak by inequitable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469629054
• ISBN13: 9781469629056
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"