Research Catalog

Title

The political context of law : proceedings of the Seventh British Legal History Conference, Canterbury, 1985 / edited by Richard Eales and David Sullivan.

Author

British Legal History Conference (7th : 1985 : University of Kent at Canterbury)

Publication

London ; Ronceverte, W. Va., U.S.A. : Hambledon Press, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eales, R. G.
• Sullivan, David S.

Description

xixi, 164 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Law > Great Britain > History > Congresses
• Law > Political aspects > Congresses
• Law
• Law > Political aspects
• Rechtsgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.
• Actes de congrès.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The lawbooks of medieval Wales / Dafydd Jenkins -- The brieve of right revisited / Hector MacQueen -- Chief justice and felon : the career of Thomas Weyland / Paul Brand -- The administration of criminal justice in late medieval England : peace sessions and assizes / Edward Powell -- The Henrician assizes and the enforcement of the Reformation / Amanda Bevan -- The strategies of rhetoric in St. German's Doctor and student / R.J. Schoeck -- Usury in the Elizabethan Exchequer / Norman L. Jones -- Knowledge of the English criminal law in Poland at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / W.M. Bartel -- The appointment of sheriffs and administration of justice in nineteenth-century Ireland / J.F. McEldowney -- Shooting the elephant : historians and the problem of frontier lawlessness / Hamar Foster -- The royal prerogative or a statutory code? The War Office and contingency legal planning, 1885-1914 / G.R. Rubin -- The origins of the nolo plea / A.D.E. Lewis.

ISBN

• 0907628842
• 9780907628842

LCCN

87000088

OCLC

• ocm15163281
• 15163281
• SCSB-1175019

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library