Precedent in English Law

by Rupert Cross and J.W. Harris

Book Overview

This fourth edition of Precedent in English Law presents a basic guide to the current doctrine of precedent in England, set in the wider context of the jurisprudential problems which any treatment of this topic involves. Such problems include the nature ofratio_decidendiof a precedent and of its binding force, the significance of precedents alongside other sources of law, their role in legal reasoning, and the account which must be taken of them by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198761635
• ISBN13: 9780198761631
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.5"