Antiquariatskatalog Rechtswissenschaften Deutschland Europa und ...

50
He sat in the Massachusetts legilsature (1805-
1808 and 1810-1811) and headed a committee
which recommended the creation of an equity
court there. He sat in Congress 1808-1809. in
1811 he was appointed an Associate Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court, the youngest ever appointed.
On the bench his views had great weight
with Marshall, and his judgments are impressive
for breadth of learning. On circuit he did much to
establish admiralty law.
In 1829 he also became the first Dane Professor
at Harvard and over the next 15 years wrote numerous
books of the highest authority and value,
including Agency (1839) and other works, all of
which have gone through many editions.
Apart from James Kent no man has, by writing
and teaching, had greater influence on American
law and some of his books have been extensivelyreferred
to in England and elsewhere.
Along with J.H. Ashmun, Royal Professor at Harvard,
and Tapping Reeve and Iames Gould of the
Lichtfield Law School, he was a pioneer in the development
of the law school, as contrasted with
office, preparation for legal practice. The Commentaries
were incredible achievements, and
evidence immense industry and legal knowledge,
and themselves entitled him to beranked as a jurist
of the first rank.
His son, W. W. Story, wrote his life story (vid. Nr. 7
in this catalogue)
Marvin 672: „The whole work (id est Commentaries
on the Law of Agency) is marked with that
ample and redundant learning and vigorous good
sense, which have given his previous legal writings
so high an authority, both in England and
America. He has every where illustrated the doctrines
of the common law, by copious extracts
from distinguished writers on Roman and Continental
law, and shown us how inevitably the exigences
of commerce, and the sense with intelligent
merchants have of their own true interests,
lead to the same principles in commercial law in
England, Scotland, Francem and America.“
II. USA - Recht der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
Joseph STORY in the preface, dated July 18,
1839: „The present volume is the commenement
of a series if Commentaries, which, in pursuance
of the original scheme of the Dane Professorship,
it is my design, if my life and health are prolonged,
to publish, upon the different branches of
commercial and maritime jurisprudence...
Although it is my intention to consult the works of
foreign jurists and civilians, and to introduce into
the text illustrations from the Roman law, and the
maritime jurisprudence of Continental Europe...“
Contents:
I: Agency in general
II: Who are cpable of becoming Principals and
Agents
III: Differents kinds of Agents
IV: Joint Principals and Joint Agents
V: Appointment of Agents
...
XVIII (last) chapter: Dissolution, or Determination,
of Agency
438 STORY, Joseph, Commentaries on
the Law of Bailments, with illustrations from
the civil and the Foreign Law. Seventh edition,
revised, corrected and enlarged. Boston, Little,
Brwon and Company, 1863. Oktav. XLVIII,
623 S. Zeitgemäßer Hlwd. 450,--
The only complete and satisfactory Treatise upon
the Law of Bailments, is the above work, which
completely exhausts the whole learning applicable
to the subject. Whatever was to be found in
the English and American decisions, whatever
the Roman and Continental jurisprudence affirded
in illustration of the Law of Bailments, Mr.
Justice Story collected and combined with suprising
industry, and wonderful learning. He investigates
each branch of the subjects as a distinct
and separate Title, thereby giving form and symmetry
to this important department of the law
which had not heretofore been so clearly done.
Story`s Bailments affords one of the best examples,
in modern times, of the illustration which our
laws are susceptible of, by the aid of foreign jurisprudence.
Had he written no other than this,
his reputation as a learned jurist, not only among
his own countrymen but foreigners, would have
been secure. The successive editions of each of
this author`s works are not simply reprints, but
considerably enlarged, the latest editions embodying
the intervening decisions. The introductory
pages of Mr. Charnock`s edition contain a bibliographical
account of the principal works cited in
the Commentaries.
Marvin 668/9
First edition: London 1839
Table of Contents
Chapter I: On Bailments in general
1. Importance of the Law of Bailments
2. Definition of Bailments
3. Division of Bailments into three sorts
4. Deposit, definition of
5. Mandate, definition of
6. Gratuitous Loan for use, definition of
7. Pledge of Pawn, definition of
8. Hiring, definition of, and various sorts of
9. Obligations of Bailee in different sorts of Bailments.
Difference of Legal and Moral Obligation
...
40. Confusion of Property of Bailee
Chapter II: On Deposits
41. & 42. Definition of Deposits
...
43. Division of Deoposits into Voluntary and Necessary
...
439 STORY, Joseph, The public and general
Statutes passed by the Congress of the
United States of America from 1789 to 1827
inclusive, whether Expired, Repealed, or in
Force; arranged in chronological Order, with
marginal references, and a copious Index. To
which is added the Constitution of the United
States and an Appendix. Volume I. (...III.) Boston,
published by Wells and Lilly, 1828. Oktav.
(I: 1828) VI, XII, 825 S.; (II: 1828) S. 826-1.532;
(III: 1828) S. 1.533-2.101, 17ungez. Bll. Index. 3
spätere Halblederbände. 1.500,--
I: Acts of the first (-6) Congress of the United States.
II: Acts of the Seventh (-13) Congress of the United
States.
III: Acts of the fourteenth (-19) Congress of the United
States.
440 TARRING, Charles James, Chapters
on the Law relating to the Colonies. To which
is appended a topical index of cases decided
in the privy council on appeal from the Colonies,
the Channel Islands and the Isle of man.
London, Stevens and Haynes, 1882. 8vo. XIV,
204, 48 S. OLwd (St.a.T.). 100,--
441 THOMPSON, Seymour D. and Joseph
W. THOMPSON, Commentaries on the
Law of Corporations. Third edition in which former
editions are completely revised, brought
down to the present time, annd adapted to all
the newer phases of the subject by Edrward
F. WHITE. In twelve Volumes. Indianapolis,
The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1927-