A Treatise on the Law of Insurance, Fire, Life, Accident, Marine.
A Hybrid of Treatise and Casebook Richards, George. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance: Fire, Life, Accident, Marine. With a Selection of Leading Illustrative Cases and an Appendix of Statutes and Forms. New York and Albany: Banks & Brothers, 1895. xxx, [2], 666 pp. Octavo (9" x 6"). Later cloth, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine, endpapers renewed. Light wear to corners, light fading to spine, fore-edge of title page replaced. Moderate toning to interior, early notes in pencil in a few places. $250. * Second edition. A hybrid of textbook and casebook, this treatise has an interesting preface about the merits and liabilities of the case-book method, which had been introduced at Harvard Law School in 1871. Richards was a professor at Columbia Law School, which adopted the case-book system in 1890 after a bitter dispute among its faculty. Afterwards, Theodore Dwight, the head of the school, and several other faculty and students left Columbia and established New York Law School. First published in 1893, Richard's hybrid work went through several editions and issues into the 1950s. This edition not in the Harvard Law Catalogue.
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