LibGuides: NextGen Bar Exam: Contract Law: Historical Resources

Historical Resources

Restatement of the Law - Contracts

HeinOnline: First and Second Restatements, also Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts.

Principles of the Law of Contracts; With a Chapter on the Law of Agency by William Reynell Ansen
Call Number: Item 00093957
Publication Date: 1930
A classic of contract law, Anson's Law of Contract has been a seminal text for generations of contract law students.
Provides comprehensive, authoritative analysis of the principles of the subject, with clear exposition of the key considerations underlying contract interpretation, helping students to understand complex concepts

Contract's Meaning and the Histories of Classical Contract Law
This paper argues that histories of nineteenth-century contracts have been implicated in creating a questionable historical artifact: the story of a single meaning of contract at the decisive era for modern contract law’s development, a story intimately tied with atomistic individualism.

[Electronic Resource] The Origin and History of Contract in Roman Law: Down to the End of the Republican Period by William Hepburn Buckler
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. The editors have elected to bring the book back into print as part of the continuing commitment to preserving printed works worldwide.

A History of Legislation Reform of the Common Law of Contract
This article traces legislation’s role in shaping the common law contract over the past eight centuries. Studies of the evolution of the common law have tended to overlook the impact of legislation on the field. The notion that the common law contract is almost solely judicially inspired needs to be revised in light of the extensive contributions that statutory law has made to the field. This article contextualizes the major phases of statutory contributions, breaking them down into different time periods.

[Electronic Resource]Law of contracts : law as to promises intended to be legally enforceable. by Albert Venn Dicey
Publication Date: 1891
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical, and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology, and much more.