Research Catalog

Title

Adventures of the law : proceedings of the sixteenth British Legal History Conference, Dublin, 2003 / Paul Brand, Kevin Costello & W.N. Osborough, editors.

Author

British Legal History Conference (16th : 2003 : Dublin, Ireland)

Publication

Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press in association with the Irish Legal History Society, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brand, Paul
• Costello, Kevin
• Osborough, W. N.
• Irish Legal History Society

Description

xviii, 331 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (1 col.); 24 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte
• Law > History > Congresses
• Law > Great Britain > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Isolt's trial and ordeal : a legal-historical analysis / Roger D. Groot -- Borrowings in the Welsh lawbooks / Dafydd Jenkins -- The use and adaptation of the action of replevin in Ireland during the reign of Edward I / Paul Brand -- The Danes and the marriage break-up of Philip II of France / Frederik Pedersen -- Birlaw courts and birleymen / W.D.H Sellar -- The role of exceptions in Continental civil procedure / C.H. van Rhee -- Sir William Petty and the Court of Admiralty in Restoration Ireland / Kevin Costello -- The value of judicial independence : evidence from eighteenth-century England / Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney -- The rule of law in the settler-colonial encounter : the case of Western Australia / Jule Evans -- Indigenous customary rights and the common law in Aotearoa New Zealand / David V. Williams -- Colourful adventures of the law : legal regulation of colour as sign from heraldry to trade mark law / N.M. Dawson -- Charles Hunt's haircut : getting down to the roots of a legal adventure / Richard W. Ireland -- The influence of Sir Walter Crofton's 'Irish system' on prison reform in Germany / Thomas Krause -- Law in early Iowa : one adventure / Russell K. Osgood -- The firm as an entity before the Companies Acts / Joshua Getzler and Mike Macnair -- Adventures in training : the Irish genesis of the 'remarkable and far-sighted' Select Committee on Legal Education, 1846 / Colum Kenny -- Politics, law and work in modern Britain : the 1965 Redundancy Payments Act / Richard Whitting -- An adventure of the law : the Spanish Champagne case / Peter Spiller.

ISBN

1851829369

OCLC

• 59356230
• SCSB-10228290

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library