Introduction to Law and the Legal Process

A rigorous examination and analysis of essential, abiding elements, concepts, and principles, presenting a historical background, legal reasoning, civil and criminal procedure, federalism, and administrative law as well as torts, contracts, and agency. Stresses the role of law as an arbiter of social issues; shows how law is a continuing and ongoing process. Includes numerous factual illustrations, an ample selection of both old and new cases, and a large number of tested problems. This edition has been expanded, updated, and reorganized; it now contains a full discussion of the varieties of torts, and a chapter on the statute of frauds has been reinstalled in a new version.