| Description |
ix, 260 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Custom, nature and authority : the roots of English legal positivism / Michael Lobban -- Legislation, magistrates, and judges : high law and low law in England and the Empire / Douglas Hay -- The promulgation of the statutes in late Hanoverian Britain / Simon Devereaux -- Legislation and public participation 1760-1830 / Joanna Innes -- The experience of litigation in eighteenth-century England / Wilfrid Prest -- Litigation, participation, and agency in seventeenth and eighteenth century England / Christopher Brooks -- "Making examples" and the crisis of punishment in mid-eighteenth-century England / Randall McGowen -- Virginia and the imperial state : law, enlightenment, and "the crooked cord of discretion" / David Thomas Konig -- Judges and the application of imperial law in Eastern Australia, 1788-1836 : resistance and reception / Bruce Kercher |
| Summary |
"New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the long eighteenth century"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Law -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Legislation -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Rule of law -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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| Author |
Lemmings, David.
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| LC no. |
2005006654 |
| ISBN |
1843831589 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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