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Title Entick v Carrington : 250 years of the rule of law / edited by Adam Tomkins and Paul Scott
Published Oxford : Hart Publishing, 2015

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Series Hart studies in comparative public law
Hart studies in comparative public law.
Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics and People of Entick v Carrington -- I. THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- II. PEOPLE AND INSTITUTIONS: LAWYERS, JUDGES AND POLITICIANS -- III. POLITICAL PROPAGANDA AND THE LAW -- IV. THE CAMPAIGNS IN THE COURTS AND PARLIAMENT -- V. ENVOI -- 2. Revisiting Entick v Carrington: Seditious Libel and State Security Laws in Eighteenth-Century England -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. SEDITIOUS LIBEL AND STATE SECURITY LAWS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
III. THE PRELUDE TO ENTICK V CARRINGTONIV. LORD CAMDEN CJ�S JUDGMENT IN ENTICK V CARRINGTON -- V. CONCLUSION -- 3. Entick and Carrington, the Propaganda Wars and Liberty of the Press -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. POLITICS AND THE PRESS IN THE 1760S -- III. THE BATTLE IN THE WEEKLY PRESS AND THE FIRST SET OF WARRANTS -- IV. THE NORTH BRITON AND THE SECOND SET OF WARRANTS -- V. ACTIONS FOR TRESPASS AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT -- VI. SEDITIOUS LIBEL AND THE NORTH BRITON -- VII. AFTER THE GENERAL WARRANTS -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- 4. Was Entick v Carrington a Landmark?
I. INTRODUCTIONII. LANDMARK DECISIONS -- III. THE FAME OF ENTICK V CARRINGTON -- IV. THE POWERS OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AND THE ANCIENT VENERABLE EDIFICE -- V. CONCLUSION: CHANGE IN THE COMMON LAW -- 5. Entick v Carrington and the Legal Protection of Property -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. TWO INTERPRETATIONS OF ENTICK -- III. PROPERTY AND THE DECISION IN ENTICK -- IV. PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CONTEXT -- V. THE PRIVILEGING OF PROPERTY IN ENTICK -- VI. THE INTERFERENCE WITH PROPERTY IN ENTICK -- VII. DEPRIVATION OF PROPERTY -- VIII. RECONFIGURATION OF PROPERTY
IX. PRESUMPTIONS OF STATUTORY INTERPRETATION AND THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGALITYX. ENTICK, PROPERTY AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST -- XI. CONCLUSION -- 6. The Authority of Entick v Carrington -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE RULE OF LAW -- III. PRE-EMPTION AND RAM -- IV. THE POWERS OF MINISTERS -- V. ENTICK V CARRINGTON -- 7. Law, Liberty and Entick v Carrington -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE SYLLOGISM OF LIBERTY -- III. AN �INQUIRY INTO AUTHORITY� -- IV. ENTICK, THE LAW AND THE MODERN STATE -- 8. Entick v Carrington in Scots Law -- I. INTRODUCTION
II. SEARCH WARRANTS AND THE CRIMINAL PROCESSIII. FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS OF EXECUTIVE POWER -- IV. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix: Entick v Carrington (1765) 19 State Trials 1029 -- Index
Summary Entick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. In 1762 the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, despatched Nathan Carrington and three other of the King's messengers to John Entick's house in Stepney. They broke into his house, seizing his papers and causing significant damage. Why? Because he was said to have written seditious papers published in the Monitor. Entick sued Carrington and the other messengers for trespass. The defendants argued that the Earl of Halifax had given them legal authority to act as they
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Public law -- Great Britain -- History
Constitutional & administrative law.
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Public law
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Tomkins, Adam, editor.
Scott, Paul, editor
ISBN 9781509901937
1509901930
9781474202268
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