Commentaries on the Conflict of Laws, Foreign and Domestic, in Regard to Contracts, Rights, and Remedies, and Especially in Regard to Marriages, ... Corrected and Greatly Enlarged

by Joseph Story

Story collected material from all available sources, and systematized it in a manner useful to all practitioners. This facsimile reprint of the second edition published in London is the final authorial edition, produced "under the direction and sanction of the learned author.": Sweet and Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations

960 pages, Hardcover

First published April 3, 2008

About the author

American lawyer who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. He is most remembered for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and The Amistad case, and especially for his magisterial Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States.
Story opposed Jacksonian democracy, saying it was "oppression" of property rights by republican governments when popular majorities began (in the 1830s) to restrict and erode the property rights of the minority of rich men. Historians agree that Justice Joseph Story reshaped American law—as much or more than Marshall or anyone else—in a conservative direction that protected property rights.