The British and their laws in the eighteenth century / edited by David Lemmings.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lemmings, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Law.

Rule of law--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Rule of law.

Legislation--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Legislation.

Justice, Administration of--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Justice, Administration of.

Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

ix, 260 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2005.

Summary:

"New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the long eighteenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Custom, nature, and authority : the roots of English legal positivism / Michael Lobban

Legislation, magistrates, and judges : high law and low law in England and the Empire / Douglas Hay

The promulgation of the statutes in late Hanoverian Britain / Simon Devereaux

Legislation and public participation 1760-1830 / Joanna Innes

The experience of litigation in eighteenth-century England / Wilfrid Prest

Litigation, participation, and agency in seventeenth and eighteenth century England / Christopher Brooks

'Making examples' and the crisis of punishment in mid-eighteenth-century England / Randall McGowen

Virginia and the imperial state : law, enlightenment, and 'the crooked cord of discretion' / David Thomas Konig

Judges and the application of imperial law in eastern Australia, 1788-1836 : resistance and reception / Bruce Kercher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1843831589

OCLC:

58456945