Dimensions of Private Law

Anglo-American Private Law (The Law Governing Mutual Rights And Obligations Of Individuals) Has Been A Far More Complex Phenomenon Than Is Usually Recognized. Attempts To Reduce It To A Single Explanatory Principle Or To A Precisely Classified Or Categorized Map Scheme Or Diagram Are Likely To Distort The Past By Omitting Or Marginalizing Material Inconsistent With Proposed Principles Or Schemes. Many Legal Issues Cannot Be Allocated Exclusively To One Category. Often Several Concepts Have Worked Concurrently And Cumulatively So That Competing Explanations And Categories Are Not So Much Alternatives Of Which Only One Can Be Correct As Different Dimensions Of A Complex Phenomenon Of Which Several May Be Simultaneously Valid And Necessary. This Study Will Be Of Importance To Those Interested In Property Tort Contract Unjust Enrichment Legal Reasoning Legal Method The History Of The Common Law And The Relation Between Legal Theory And Legal History.