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Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England: The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply...
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by Michael Taggart
Sales Rank: 2706674
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List Price: $130.00
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 260 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA December 19, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 019925687X
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0199256877
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
"a workof undoubted scholarship, yet one which remains readable and engagingit should satisfy the most demanding of private lawyers, whilst at the same time remaining interesting and accessible to anyone with even a passing interest in the history of common law." Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly Vol 54 no 1
"an impressive reach of research" Modern Law Review, September 2003
"This is an original contribution to our understanding of how local government functioned in the late nineteenth centuty" Modern Law Review, September 2003
""an enlightening study. It is a tour de force of legal forensics and analysis, always intelligent and highly readable even when dealing with some remarkably complex legal doctrine" Modern Law Review, September 2003
Book Description
The leading case of The Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford v Pickles was the first to establish the principle that it is not unlawful for a property owner to exercise his or her property rights maliciously and to the detriment of others or the public interest. Though controversial at the time, today it is often invisible and taken for granted. This book explores why the common law, in contrast to civil law systems, developed in this way. During the industrial revolution, the town of Bradford, and with it the demand for water for industrial and domestic purposes, grew rapidly. The first part of the book explores, through an analysis of correspondence, records, and newspaper reports, the development of the Bradford water supply and the genesis of the dispute that ultimately flared into litigation at the end of the nineteenth century. Several aspects of the case are of enduring doctrinal importance 100 years on. The controversial and potent common law principle of interpreting statutes so as to protect property rights wherever possible is examined in depth, as is the legal uncertainty of subterranean water rights in the nineteenth century. Finally the book attempts to explain the common lawyers' refusal to recognize a Continental-style doctrine of abuse of rights and the courts' failure to develop a prima face tort doctrine to curb maliciously inspired behaviour.
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