Law's machinery : reforming the craft of lawyering in America's industrial age /
"Law's Machinery tells how Americans in an age of industrialization began to think of law as a tool, one that could be forged and reformed to fit their needs without regard to the traditional ways of litigating cases in court. By legislating a "code of practice" innovators like t...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford legal history series.
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Table of Contents:
- I. The machine
- Sampson against the Philistines : the allure of an American Code
- The rule of writs : civil justice before the Code
- Mere machinery : the political shape of civil procedure
- An empire in itself : the migration of Field's Code
- The Code American : the institutes of Code practice
- II. The garden
- No magic in forms : fact pleading and the Forms of Action
- The swearer's prayer : oathtaking and witness testimony
- The want of information : discovery before trial
- The nature of things : law and equity
- How shall the lawyers be paid : fees and costs.