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Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws (often simply Dicey, Morris & Collins, or even just Dicey & Morris) is the leading English law textbook on the conflict of laws (ISBN 978-0-414-02453-3). It has been described as the "gold standard" in terms of academic writing on the subject, [1] and the "foremost authority on private ...
[2] [33] [34] In relation to the main subject for which the case is normally cited, the situs of shares in a company, Dicey Morris & Collins accept it as good authority, but note that it has to be read against a large group of cases which seek to impose a different situs in different situations for different purposes. [1]
The book was published as Lectures Introductory to the Study of the Law of the Constitution in late 1885. [4] Early reviews were generally favourable. [5] In the book's third edition, published in 1889, its title was changed to Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. [6] A seventh edition appeared in 1907. [7]
Darbyshire on the English Legal System - 12th ed - Sweet & Maxwell - ISBN 978-0-414-05785-2; Dicey, A. V.; Morris, J. H. C. & Collins, Lawrence (1993). Dicey and Morris on the Conflict of Laws 12th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell ISBN 978-0-420-48280-8; Slapper, Gary & Kelly, David (2016). The English Legal System. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138 ...
A few years later, Sir William Blackstone in his Commentaries, 14th ed. (1803), Book II, p. 346, speaking of private Acts of Parliament, said: "A law, thus made, though it binds all parties to the bill, is yet looked upon rather as a private conveyance, than as the solemn act of the legislature.
Each book in the series follows events in the lives of different characters introduced in Dicey's Song or Homecoming. Seventeen Against the Dealer takes up events in Dicey's life when she is 21. A Solitary Blue concerns events in the life of Jeff Greene, a character introduced in Dicey's Song and a central figure in Seventeen Against the Dealer.
The book was banned in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, [1] but the scandal bolstered sales in the United Kingdom and the US. [2] Collins' publishers at the time, W. H. Allen & Co., told her that unless she took the "four-letter words" out, the book would be banned in Australia.
Morris's original intention was to direct a film based on the MacDonald case that would challenge the story presented by government prosecutors at the 1979 trial, and by Joe McGinniss in his 1983 book on the case, Fatal Vision, which proposed that MacDonald was a psychopath who had overdosed on the diet pill Eskatrol and tried to cover up the ...