John Chipman Gray : the Harvard Brahmin of property law / Gerald Paul Moran.
2010
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Title
John Chipman Gray : the Harvard Brahmin of property law / Gerald Paul Moran.
Published
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
KF368.G73 M67 2010
ISBN
9781594603983 (alk. paper)
1594603987 (alk. paper)
1594603987 (alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)537308899
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-309) and index.
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Table of Contents
Illustrastioins
xi
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgtements
xv
ch. 1
John Chipman Gray and the Rule Against Perpetuity
3
General Introdution
3
Twentieth-Century Perspective on the RAP
5
The Culture of the Boston Brahmin
7
Gray's Philosophical Approach to the Law
9
Cultural Influences of Gray as Related to the RAP
15
Shymbiotic Relationship of Gray and the RAP
17
Summary Preamble
21
ch. 2
Gray's Cultural Experinece and Formaulation of the RAP
25
The Gray Family Tree
31
Trouble in the Financial World of Horace Gray Sr.
35
Impact of Father's Insolvency on Gray's Articulation of the RAP
39
ch. 3
Scholarly Influence of Half-Brother Justice Horace Gray Jr.
45
Distant in Birth but Identical in Interpretation of the Common Law
45
Parallel Pathways on Interpretation of the Common Law
49
Modus Operandi of the Gray Brothers
55
A Case of Financial Inheritance for the Descendrants of William Gray
62
Judicial Criticism by the Gray Brothers
64
The Attack of the Dred Scott Decision
64
Chief Justic Doe's Decision Providing Relief from the RAP
65
ch. 4
The Early Years
69
Academic Study
69
Intervention of the Civil War
69
Gray's Entry into the Civil War
73
ch. 5
Practice of Law and Wedded Bliss
83
The Mating Season: Readjustment to Civilian Life
83
Spring of 1865: The Dance of Rivalry, Courtship, and Mating
89
Marriage to Anna Lyman Mason: Perfect Spouse, Friend, and Participant in the Gilded Age
94
Transition from Military Service to Private Practice of law: Creation of Ropes & Gray
98
Addendu,: The Establishment of Judicial Law Clerks
102
ch. 6
Harvard Law School Years
105
Eliot: Guiding Innovator of the Academic Law School
105
Gray's Appointment to the Law School Faculty
107
Law as Science: Langdellian Innovation under Eliot's Supervision
115
Raltaions of Case Method to Socratic Dialogue
121
The Invention of the Academci Lawyer
124
Facultuy Conflict and Gray's Plea to Eliot
127
Gray and University Relations
136
Gray Teaching Style Unaffected by Case Method and Socratic Dialogue
137
Gray and Student Relations
146
ch. 7
Gray as Philosopher in the Age of Classical Formalism
155
Gray as Legal Philosopher
155
Harvard Law School and Its Scienfitic Modality
158
Impact of Law Practice on Gray's Philosophy
163
Gray as an Incipient Legal Realist
166
Castegorizing Gray's Philosophical Offerings
168
Gray's Treatises on the Law
171
Interpretive Analusis of Gray's Philosophy
173
Resolution of Gray's Philosophical Analysis
177
ch. 8
Consideration of Restraints on the Alienation of Proerty and the Spendtrhriftr Provison
181
Gray's Separation of the RAP and Restraints on Alienaton
181
Gray's Attack on the Enforceability of the Spendthrift Provision
183
Footnote to Legal History
185
Pain of the Judicial Invention ofthe Spendthrift Doctine
186
Law as the Source of Secular Morality for Gray
188
ch. 9
Gray and His Contemporary Critics
195
Sir Howard Warburton Elphinstone
195
H.W. Challis
200
Charles Sweet
201
Judge Jabez Fox
207
Albert Martin Kales
211
The Gray and Kales Dialogue
218
Sidebar: W. Barton Leach on the Class Gift Rule
223
Endgame
225
ch. 10
Americanization ofthe Rule Against Perpetuities
227
Legal Education and Student Indoctrination of the Modern RAP
231
Leach: De Novo Criticism of Gray's RAP
236
Revision of Gray's RAP by the American Law Insititute and Adoption of Modified USRAP
241
Public Choice Thoery and Repeal and/or Modification of the RAP
246
The Reigning Oracle of the RAP
251
ch. 11
The Modern Rule Against Perpetuities: Direct Derivative of the Common Law Rules Aginst Perpetuities
253
Imapct of Historical Context on the Creation, Application, and Comprehension of Property Rules
253
Common Law Rules aginst Perpetuity (CLRAP)
259
Contemporary Relevance of the RAP: Uncertain and Questionable
268
Final Denouement of the RAP?
271
ch. 12
Conclusion
273
Appendix A
Butler's Note
283
Appendix B
Students' Letter to Gray
289
Appendix C
Gray's Appreciation of Students' Letter
293
Bibliography
295
Index
311