Restatement of the Law

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A series of detailed statements of the basic law in the united states on a variety of subjects written and updated by well-known legal scholars under the auspices of the american law institute since the 1930s. while not having the force of statutes or of decided precedents, the restatement (as lawyers generally call it) has the prestige of the scholars who have studied the legal questions. topics covered include agency, contracts, property, torts and trusts.

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