PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY 3RD EDITIONItem #: 72275 Published: OE; Printed for J. Bell and W. Creech; Reprinted in 2011. Subjects: JURISPRUDENCE, LEGAL HISTORY Reprint of third edition. Revised and corrected, this wasthe last edition published in Kames's lifetime, and the de-finitive authorial text. The leading Scottish jurist of hisday and an important figure of the Scottish Enlightenment,Lord Kames was an influence on David Hume, James Boswell andAdam Smith. "We must every one of us acknowledge Kames forour master."-Adam Smith. Kame's commitment to Enlightenmentprinciples influenced the design of his treatise on equityon Scottish law, which reduces the subject to "a regularsystem" that puts each element "in its proper place" (xii).Kames intended to begin this book with "a preliminarydiscourse on morals," but he left it out in order "bringthis edition within a moderate price" (xii).Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Please contact us to request purchasing information. |