| The Law of Usages and Customs Contributor(s): Browne, J. H. Balfour (Author) |
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ISBN: 1163346802 ISBN-13: 9781163346808 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $25.88 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2010 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Customary - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 9.02" W x 6" (0.85 lbs) 146 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 1875. The author examines the customs out of which the law has developed. He explains in the introduction that all laws float in men's minds long before they send down a precipitate of imperative words. For example, it must have been understood by men that theft-the act of taking the property of another without his consent-was wrong before they made a law to punish the thief, with the view of preventing similar depredations. But long before men made a law they had bolts to their doors, and if they caught the robber they exercised their right by taking his booty from him and possibly even by inflicting upon him a vengeful punishment. This was not done by one man but by many, and we see in it the embryonic custom out of which the law has developed. |