Excerpt from Conflict of Laws There are three general systems of legal instruction in use in American Law Schools - the lecture, the case, and the text method. Regardless of the relative superiority of one to the others, the author is convinced, after seven years teaching experience, that no one of these methods alone is adequate to sound, thorough instruction in the law. In his presentation of this difficult subject in the class-room, he has produced satisfactory results only by a combination of text, cases, and lecture in proper pro portion. The value of a text in stating the principles of the 1a7 in brief form can not be denied. The necessity of reading leading decisions that support and apply those principles is indisputable. And finally, there is the general discussion in class; the Instructor When neces sary, expounding the subject, imparting the benefits of his knowledge and experience and observation, thereby arousing and sustaining interest in the work; these are the things that elevate instruction from the mechanical to the intellectual. In presenting this text therefore, the author makes no defense. He has embodied the fundamentals of the sub jeot in the text in simple form. He has scrupulously selected the leading decisions and included them in the notes, Where they are identified by large conspicuous cita tion. Finally, instead of merely stating the law, he has by clear simple language explained it, so as to reproduce, as far as possible, the full value of the class instruction. It is this very feature, it is believed, that Will commend it for Law School purposes to Instructor and class alike. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Conflict of Laws, or Private International Law All the principles of private international law (it might more properly be called The Law of Situs) will be found to group themselves under one or the other of these heads. The branch of the law herein discussed, though of daily growing importance, is at present in a most chaotic condition. Comparatively few points may be regarded as settled. The courts too frequently fail to rest their decisions upon sound foundations of reason and principle; they are too often inclined to indulge in vague generalities and dicta, without analyzing the transaction before them into its elements, and applying the law of the situs of each element to determine its effect. It has been my constant aim to reduce every proposition to its ultimate principles, for only by this means can order be brought out of the confusion that now exists. In some in stances I have been forced to cite decisions which, while sup porting the conclusions to which they are cited, have reached those conclusions by fallacious courses of reasoning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from On Jurisprudence and the Conflict of Laws It will be remembered that the whole Of these five Lectures were delivered and published just forty years ago, and they are based on the books then current and reflect the views of that day. But as they are almost entirely historical, it does not seem to me that subsequent authorities have displaced or superseded them. What is needed in the way of reference to recent books will be found in the Annotations of my colleague. I am aware that my suggestion of a new name for Private International Law has not been accepted by some eminent authorities. But their criticism has not con vinced me, and, as the discussion it aroused was a fact in legal history, I allow it to remain here without further argument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Cases on the Conflict of Laws: Selected From Decisions of English and American Courts For years past the science of law has been taught by lectures, the use of text-books and more recently by the detailed study, in the class-room, of selected cases. Each method has its advocates, but it is generally agreed that the lecture system should be discarded because in it the lecturer does the work and the student is either a willing receptacle or offers a passive resistance. It is not too much to say that the lecture system is doomed. Instruction by the means of text-books as a supplement or substitute for the formal lecture has made its formal entry into the educational world and obtains widely; but the system is faulty and must pass away as the exclusive means of studying and teaching law. It is an improvement on the formal lecture in that the student works, but if it cannot be said that he works to no purpose, it is a fact that he works from the wrong end. The rule is learned without the reason, or both rule and reason are stated in the abstract as the resultant rather than as the process. If we forget the rule we cannot solve the problem; if we have learned to solve the problem it is a simple matter to formulate a rule of our own. The text-book method may strengthen the memory; it may not train the mind, nor does it necessarily strengthen it. A text, if it be short, is at best a summary, and a summary presupposes previous knowledge. If, however, law be considered as a science rather than a collection of arbitrary rules and regulations, it follows that it should be studied as a science. Thus to state the problem is to solve it; the laboratory method has displaced the lecture, and the text yields to the actual experiment. The law reports are in more senses than one books of experiments, and, by studying the actual case, the student co-operates with the judge and works out the conclusion however complicated the facts or the principles involved. A study of cases arranged historically develops the knowledge of the law, and each case is seen to be not an isolated fact but a necessary link in the chain of development. The study of the case is clearly the most practical method, for the student already does in his undergraduate days what he must do all his life; it is curiously the most theoretical and the most practical. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws, or Private International Law E. Glasson. Paris, 1880. Infra, 205. The French Code of Commerce, with a practical Commentary. By L. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Bartolus on the Conflict of Laws In the course of five hundred years the simple principles which Bartolus laid down became strangely warped and distorted. The various schools of statutists in Italy, France, and the Netherlands drew singular conclusions from his expressed Opinions and ascribed these conclusions too often to Bartolus himself.2 Through Dumoulin, Voet, and Huber these new conclusions became the basis of much modern specu lation, through the work of Story, Mancini, and Foelix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.