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Law and the emergence of modern Dublin : a litigation topography for a capital city / W.N. Osborough.

Title
Law and the emergence of modern Dublin : a litigation topography for a capital city / W.N. Osborough.
Author
Osborough, W. N.
Publication
Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society, c1996.

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Additional Authors
Irish Legal History Society.
Description
xxii, 225 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
This book aims to reconstruct part of Dublin's past from source material of an unconventional and unfamiliar sort: accounts of lawsuits generated by the evolving fortunes of the city and surrounding district. To enable the significance of these lawsuits to be better understood and to lend coherence to the narrative as a whole, additional explanatory material has been incorporated, drawn principally from general and specialist local histories. But the choice of focus has been dictated by the presence of an inventory of lawsuits with a topographical bias. In his preface, Professor Osborough remarks that he is unaware of the existence of any equivalent published exercise carried out for any other large city. Complete with a detailed index and tables of cases and statutes, this volume is enhanced by over 100 illustrations in black and white.
Subject
  • Law > Ireland > Dublin > History
  • Dublin (Ireland) > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-191) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introducing litigation topography -- 2. Defining Dublin -- 3. The physical setting -- 4. The river, port and bay -- 5. Re-naming Sackville street -- 6. Landmark buildings -- 7. Public utilities -- 8. Recreation for Dubliners -- 9. Burying Dubliners -- 10. Assessment -- Appendix: Vice-chancellor Chatterton and Dublin street nomenclature -- The Irish Legal History Society.
ISBN
0716525836
LCCN
^^^96152753^
OCLC
  • 34798391
  • SCSB-11975143
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library