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1 Online-Ressource (xv, 349 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139093613
Content:
In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of law-making in courts that is the focus of inquiry. Contributors describe and analyse aspects of judicial activity, in the widest possible legal and social contexts, across two millennia. The essays cover English common law, continental customary law and ius commune, and aspects of the common law system in the British Empire. The volume is innovative in its approach to legal history. None of the essays offer straight doctrinal exegesis; none take refuge in old-fashioned judicial biography. The volume is a selection of the best papers from the 18th British Legal History Conference
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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pt. I. Common law ; Judges and judging, 1176-1307
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Formalism and realism in fifteenth-century English law : bodies corporate and bodies natural
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Early-modern judges and the practice of precedent
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Bifurcation and the bench : the influence of the jury on English conceptions of the judiciary
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Sir William Scott and the law of marriage
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The politics of English law in the nineteenth century
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Judges and the criminal law in England, 1808-61
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Bureaucratic adjudication : the internal appeals of the Inland Revenue
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pt. II. Continental law ; Remedy of prohibition against Roman judges in civil trials
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The spokesmen in medieval courts : the unknown leading judges of the customary law and makers of the first Continental law reports
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Superior courts in early-modern France, England and the Holy Roman Empire
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The Supreme Court of Holland and Zeeland judging cases in the early 18th century
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pt. III. Imperial law ; 11,000 prisoners : habeas corpus, 1500-1800
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Some difficulties of colonial judging : the Bahamas, 1886-1893
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Australia's early High Court, the fourth Commonwealth Attorney-General and the 'Strike of 1905'
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Judges and judging in colonial New Zealand : where did native title fit in?
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107018976
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107542549
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107018976
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139093613
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