Novel Nerd Blog - Book Reviews by Smitha

FACTS OF THE CASE DONOGHUE V STEVENSON The case involved by May Donoghue also known as "Paisley snail" or "Snail in the bottle" case where Donoghue drank a bottle of ginger beer in a cafe she entered in Paisley, occupied by one Minchella is the most famous case in the common law. The ginger beer was bought by a friend who accompanied her at Minchella. Two slabs of ice cream each of which was placed in a tumbler and contents of a bottle of ginger beer were poured on it. The defender Stevenson was the manufacturer of the ginger beer and bought from him by Minchella. The ginger beer was contained in a bottle made of dark opaque glass. A decomposed snail floated out when the friend was pouring the remains in the contents of the bottle. As a result of the nauseating sight of the snail and the impurities in the ginger beer which Donoghue had already consumed, she had suffered from shock and severe Gastroenteritis. Normally, the consumer can claim for injuries resulting fr...

This book mentions that the Credit for coining the expression 'the rule of law' is usually given to Professor A.V Dicey,  the Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford, who used it in his book An introduction  to the study of the law of the constitution, p ublished 1885. In this book part 1, I came across what Tom Bingham has quoted Dicey's three meanings of definition for Rule of Law.  In the first place, he wrote 'that no man is punishable or can lawfully be made to suffer in body or goods except for a distinct breach of law established in the ordinary legal manner before the ordinary courts of the land. Dicey's thinking was clear. If anyone - you or I - is to be penalized it must not be breaking some rule dreamt up by an ingenious minister or official in order to convict us. It must be for a proven breach of the established law of the land. And it must be a breach established before the ordinary courts of the land, not a tribunal of members picked to do the gov...

Book review and my thoughts on "Redeeming Love" by Francine Rivers The book Redeeming love is all about powerful retelling the bible story of Hosea and Gomer and their marriage who lived in the eighth century B. C in the northern portion of Israel. The setting of the book "Redeeming Love" is in the 1850s Gold Rush in California, a historical romance novel by Francine Rivers. Angel's past years of her life haunted her continuously. My favorite quote in this book is "Everybody wants something. Nobody gives you anything without expecting something back". Michael Hosea took Angel out of a brothel. He fell in love with her for the first time he saw her and loved her unconditionally. Michael had seen Angel in a worse place than one could imagine and still, he took her back. Even after she deserted and betrayed him he fought for her. She could never understand him. She had thought men like him were weak, but Michael wasn't. Rivers describes Michael Hosea ...