Shifting the Blame
Subtitle: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth Century America
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 20, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780415926843
First sentence: IN the opening scene of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers (1823), Judge Temple is returning with his daughter, Elizabeth, to Templeton, the wilderness settlement named after him, when he hears the sound of dogs chasing game through the woods.