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The Common Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · United States · English
Why we recommend it
The 1881 book that gave American law its best-known sentence about experience.
A collection of lectures on the history and logic of the common law. It is the source of the famous line that the life of the law has not been logic but experience.
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Readers who want the history behind American legal thought.
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