- Additional Authors
- Godfrey, Mark
- Description
- 1 online resource (358 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Summary
- By presenting original research into British legal history, this volume emphasises the historical shaping of the law by ideas of authority. The essays offer perspectives upon the way that ideas of authority underpinned the conceptualisation and interpretation of legal sources over time and became embedded in legal institutions. The contributors explore the basis of the authority of particular sources of law, such as legislation or court judgments, and highlight how this was affected by shifting ideas relating to concepts of sovereignty, religion, political legitimacy, the nature of law, equity and judicial interpretation. The analysis also encompasses ideas of authority which influenced the development of courts, remedies and jurisdictions, international aspects of legal authority when questions of foreign law or jurisdiction arose in British courts, the wider authority of systems of legal ideas such as natural law, the authority of legal treatises, and the relationship between history, law and legal thought.
- Alternative Title
- Law & Authority in British Legal History, 1200–1900
- Note
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 May 2016).
- OCLC
- CR9781316402795
- Title
Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200–1900 / edited by Mark Godfrey.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Godfrey, Mark, editor.
- Other Form:
Print version: 9781107122277