TY  - GEN
T1  - Heart versus head : judge-made law in nineteenth-century America
T2  - Studies in legal history.
A1  - Karsten, Peter
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill ; London
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44961102
AB  - Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern for the rights of parties rendered weak by inequitable rules and a willingness to create exceptions or altogether new rules on their behalf.
AB  - Karsten unites his legal commentary with recent scholarship on the political culture of antebellum America in exploring the roots of a pro-plaintiff, humanitarian jurisprudence. In the process, he necessarily addresses the shortcomings of earlier, economic-oriented paradigms regarding judicial rulemaking in the nineteenth century - an alleged jurisprudence of the visible or invisible hand - demonstrating that both head and heart guided the making of American common law.
OP  - 490
CN  - KF4575 .K37 1997eb
SN  - 0807862355
SN  - 9780807862353
SN  - 9781469629063
SN  - 1469629062
SN  - 0807823406
SN  - 9780807823408
SN  - 9781469629056
KW  - Judge-made law : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Droit créé par le juge : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Government : Judicial Branch.
KW  - LAW : Legal Services.
KW  - LAW : Civil Procedure.
KW  - Judge-made law
KW  - United States
KW  - Richterrecht
KW  - USA
KW  - Precedentenrecht.
KW  - Privaatrecht.
KW  - Rechtspraak.
KW  - Rechtstheorie.
KW  - Geschichte 1800-1900.
KW  - 1800-1899.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
ER  -