This volume of the ABA Classics Series is The Common Law. In the history of the law there have been many great treatises written by many great legal minds, but only a few have had the influence and staying power to truly be called the classics. The Common Law by

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The first publication of an extensive correspondence between two of the century's greatest American jurists.

"On his retirement from the Supreme Court at the age of 90 in 1932, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was celebrated as few judges have ever been, beloved and revered as a national treasure. Holmes's influence, magnified into legend by the attention he has continued to receive, has helped to constitute

Presents the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, who was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.