Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in...
Story, Joseph [1779-1845]. Bennett, Edmund Hastings, Editor. Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, Divorces, Wills, Successions, and Judgments. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1857. xxxviii, 1047 pp. Text prefaced by 8-pp. publisher catalogue. Octavo (9-1/4" x 5-3/4"; 23.6 x 14.8 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind rules to boards, red lettering piece and small paper label to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffs to boards, spine significantly darkened and gatored, joints starting. $350. * Fifth edition, revised, corrected and greatly enlarged. (Additional cases after 1845, which are set off in the text by brackets, were added by Bennett). A foundational work in private international law, considered an "epoch in the law" and the first systematic treatise on the subject. Story, was an influential Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and the first Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Marvin considers Story's Conflict of Laws to be the first systematic work on the subject. He also notes: "No work on international jurisprudence merited, nor received, greater praise from the jurists of Europe. It impressed English lawyers with the highest respect for the extensive learning of Mr. Justice Story." "It is not too much to say that its publication constituted an epoch in the law; for it became at once the standard and almost the sole authority...[it] received the honor of being practically the first American law book to be cited as authority in English courts.": Parrish, "Law Books and Legal Publishing in America, 1760-1840," in Law Library Journal 72:355-452, 434. Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 670. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 2728.
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