The Right to Privacy
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798634795881
- Series
- The Right to Privacy
- Pages
- 40
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-04-09
- Authors
- Louis Brandeis, Samuel D Warren
Description
That the individual shall have full protection in person and in property is a principle as old as the common law; but it has been found necessary from time to time to define anew the exact nature and extent of such protection. Political, social, and economic changes entail the recognition of new rights, and the common law, in its eternal youth, grows to meet the demands of society. Thus, in very early times, the law gave a remedy only for physical interference with life and property, for trespasses vi et armis. Then the "right to life" served only to protect the subject from battery in its various forms...
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- 2017-09-28
- 171 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press