Jeffrey Gilbert on property and contract: volume I

This volume is the first part of a two-volume edition of Chief Baron Gilbert’s writings on property and contract. This volume includes Gilbert’s Treatise of the Law of Nature, as well as the chapters on his Treatise of Property and Contract devoted to the foundations of the law of obligations and to the law relating to personal property. This volume also contains an introduction, which examines Gilbert’s life (including his role in the Irish constitutional crisis of 1717-1719), his projected comprehensive treatise on English law, his ideas on the law of nature, his contractual thought and his writings as an historian.