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A Jurisprudence of Power
Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law
Av R.W. Kostal
Inbunden, 2005
3885 kr
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A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression under martial law of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the explosive debate and litigation these events spawned in England. The book explores the centrality of legal ideas and institutions in English politics, and of political ideas that give …
Advocacy and the Making of the Adversarial Criminal Trial 1800-1865
Inbunden, 1999
2776 kr
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The modern adversarial criminal trial emerged from the punitive and procedural upheaval in the criminal law of the first half of the nineteenth century. The campaign against capital punishment, which marked the century's early decades, stimulated procedural reform, including the enactment in 1836 …
A History of Water Rights at Common Law
Inbunden, 2004
2796 kr
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Water resources were central to England's precocious economic development in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and then again in the industrial, transport, and urban revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of these periods saw a great deal of legal conflict …
A History of Water Rights at Common Law
Häftad, 2006
1177 kr
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Water resources were central to England's precocious economic development in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and then again in the industrial, transport, and urban revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of these periods saw a great deal of legal conflict …
Bills of Rights and Decolonization
The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Instruments in Britain's Overseas Territories
Inbunden, 2007
2281 kr
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Bills of Rights and Decolonization analyzes the British Government's radical change in policy during the late 1950s on the use of bills of rights in colonial territories nearing independence. More broadly it explores the political dimensions of securing the protection of human rights at …
Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England
The Story of Edward Pickles and the Bradford Water Supply
Inbunden, 2002
2753 kr
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The leading case of The Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford v Pickles was the first to establish the principle that it is not unlawful for a property owner to exercise his or her property rights maliciously and to the detriment of others or the public interest. Though …
The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial
Inbunden, 2003
2248 kr
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The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American criminal procedure developed late in English legal history. For centuries, defendants were forbidden to have counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution either. Trial was meant to be an occasion for the defendant …
Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition
Av Neil Duxbury
Inbunden, 2004
1881 kr
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Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition provides the first detailed historical account of one of England's great jurists.Until the later decades of the twentieth century, law developed little as an academic discipline in England. One exceptional period of intellectual growth, however, …
The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial
Häftad, 2005
1318 kr
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The adversary system of trial, the defining feature of the Anglo-American legal procedure, developed late in English legal history. For centuries defendants were forbidden to have legal counsel, and lawyers seldom appeared for the prosecution either. Trial was meant to be an occasion for the …
A Jurisprudence of Power
Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law
Häftad, 2008
923 kr
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A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression under martial law of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the explosive debate and litigation these events spawned in England. The book explores the centrality of legal ideas and institutions in English politics, and of political ideas that give …
Lords of the Land
Indigenous Property Rights and the Jurisprudence of Empire
Inbunden, 2011
1998 kr
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The recognition and allocation of indigenous property rights have long posed complex questions for the imperial powers of the mid-nineteenth century and their modern successors. Recognizing rights of property raises questions about pre-existing indigenous authority and power over land that continue …
Broken Engagements
The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940
Inbunden, 2010
2863 kr
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The common law action for breach of promise of marriage originated in the mid-seventeenth century, but it was not until the nineteenth century that it rose to prominence and became a regular feature in law courts and gossip columns. By 1940 the action was defunct, it was inconceivable for a …
