(Source: Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge
University Press is publishing a book on Pierson v. Post, a leading 19th
century case in American property law.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The 1805 New
York foxhunting case Pierson v. Post has long been used in American property
law classrooms to introduce law students to the concept of first possession by
asking how one establishes possession of a wild animal. In this book, Professor
Angela Fernandez retells the history of the famous fox case, from its origins
as a squabble between two wealthy young men on the South Fork of Long Island
through its appeal to the New York Supreme Court and entry into legal treatises,
law school casebooks, and law journal articles, where it still occupies a
central place. Professor Fernandez argues that the dissent is best understood
as an example of legal solemn foolery. Yet it has been treated by legal
professionals, the lawyers of its day, and subsequent legal academics in such a
serious way, demonstrating how the solemn and the silly can occupy two sides of
the same coin in American legal history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Angela
Fernandez, University of Toronto
Angela Fernandez
is a legal historian at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, where she is
also a member of the Department of History. She has published numerous articles
and is co-editor of Law Books in Action: Essays on the Anglo-American Legal
Treatise (2012).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I. The
Literary History of Pierson:
1. Solemn
foolery
2. Rabelaisian
play
Part II. The
Social History of Pierson:
3. Local justice
4. Lawyerization
5. The legal
fictions needed for a state of nature debate
Part III. The
Intellectual History of Pierson:
6. The reporter
7. Mandarization
Conclusion.
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