John Chipman Gray
Subtitle: the Harvard Brahmin of property law
By: Gerald Paul Moran.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594603983
Subjects: Gray, John Chipman, -- 1839-1915 -- Biography; Lawyers -- Massachusetts -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: John Chipman Gray and the rule against perpetuity (RAP); title: Early life and times; title: Scholarly influence of half-brother, Horace Gray, Jr; title: The early years : academic study, call of the Civil War, academic study; title: Practice of law and wedded bliss; title: Harvard Law School years; title: Gray as philosopher in the age of classical formalism; title: Consideration of restraints on the alienation of property and the spendthrift provision; title: Gray and his contemporary critics; title: Americanization of the rule against perpetuities; title: The modern rule against perpetuities : direct derivative of the common law rules against perpetuities.