The Law of Torts Or Private Wrongs

Download or read book The Law of Torts Or Private Wrongs written by Francis Hilliard and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language treatise on the subject of torts. Orginally published: Little Brown, and Co., 1859. Two vols., xxxviii, 540; xxxvii, 719 pp. As the Dictionary of American Biography points out, this treatise marked the "beginning of a revolution in legal thought" because it was the first to approach torts as a distinct legal category. Before Hilliard, "practical text-writers...regarded such wrongs as too divergent in nature for unified treatment and merely discussed some distinct wrong" (V:53-54). FRANCIS HILLIARD [1806-1878], a Harvard educated attorney who lived in Boston, was a prolific and distinguished author of treatises on jurisprudence, real property, contracts, business law and other subjects.