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The Development of Law in Frontier California
Gordon Morris Bakken
其他書名
Civil Law and Society, 1850-1890
出版Bloomsbury Academic, 1985
主題Law / GeneralLaw / Civil LawLaw / Civil ProcedureLaw / JurisprudenceLaw / Legal History
ISBN03132472509780313247255
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=lR3DEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This is a thought-provoking exploration of the development of civil law in California from 1850 to 1890. Focusing upon contract, landlord and tenant, mortgage, tort, and admiralty law, Bakken argues that the formulation of the law generally responded to socioeconomic forces. He also asserts that on the operational level, the law's reach was limited by ambiguities, judicial inexactitude, and mistakes made by the bar. Essentially, the broad policy goals of frontier law worked to stimulate marketplace forces by facilitating certain transactions. Entrepreneurs often received the aid of the developing law, but were frustrated by it at other times. Bakken scrutinizes the role of judges, legislators, lawyers, and laymen in contributing to this process. Finally, he demonstrates that the law was less certain and the policy considerations less clear when the law actually functioned on an operational level in society.