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  • Conclusion

  • Yun-chien Chang, Cornell Law School, New York
  • Book:
    Property Law
    Published online:
    18 May 2023
    Print publication:
    01 June 2023, pp 352-360

  • Summary

    The Conclusion recapitulates the lessons of the comparative, empirical, and economic analyses and points out future directions that enable us to even better test the grand property theories and understand property legal systems around the word.

  • Chapter 8 - The common law

  • from Part 3 - Learning the laws
  • Anthony Marinac, James Cook University, North Queensland, Caroline Hart, University of Southern Queensland, Rhianna Chisholm, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Jennifer Nielsen, Southern Cross University, Australia, Asmi Wood, Australian National University, Canberra, Adrian Evans, Monash University, Victoria, Sarah McKibbin, University of Southern Queensland
  • Book:
    Learning Law
    Published online:
    19 November 2020
    Print publication:
    07 October 2020, pp 192-223

  • Summary

    In Chapter 2, you were introduced to common law — a body of law that was commonly practised by judges throughout the English jurisdiction. Alongside the common law, equity developed as a body of principles designed to ‘soften’ the rigidity and injustice perpetuated by the common law and, in particular, its writ system. These two bodies of law emerged from judicial decision-making and, therefore, are bodies of law created entirely by judges.