Law: Its Origin Growth and Function.
Carter, James Coolidge. Law: Its Origin, Growth and Function. Being a Course of Lectures Prepared for Delivery Before the Law School of Harvard University. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. Reprint. [New York: The Legal Classics Library, 1996]. vii, 355 pp. Calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Fine. $35. * "Mr. Carter...was a strenuous opponent of the adoption by the State of New York of Mr. David Dudley Field's Civil Code. (...) The remembrance of this great struggle was always in his mind, and was, I feel sure, the raison d'etre of...his book, and has affected his whole point of view. The main thesis...is the theory that all law proceeds from the commands of the sovereign. He admits fully 'that all the knowledge which we really have of the law comes from the judge,' but he shrinks from saying that the judge makes law, because he fears that this would recognize the theory that all law comes from the command of the sovereign.": Gray, The Nature and Sources of the Law 233-234.
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