Law, crime, and English society, 1660-1830 / edited by Norma Landau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landau, Norma, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Great Britain--History.

Law.

Criminal law--Great Britain--History.

Criminal law.

Crime--Great Britain--History.

Crime.

Sociological jurisprudence.

England--Social conditions.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Law, Crime & English Society, 1660-1830

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered, and used in eighteenth-century England. A team of leading international historians explore the ways in which legal concerns and procedures came to permeate society and reflect on eighteenth-century concepts of corruption, oppression, and institutional efficiency. These themes are pursued throughout in a broad range of contributions which include studies of magistrates and courts; the forcible enlistment of soldiers and sailors; the eighteenth-century 'bloody code'; the making of law basic to nineteenth-century social reform; the populace's extension of law's arena to newspapers; theologians' use of assumptions basic to English law; Lord Chief Justice Mansfield's concept of the liberty intrinsic to England; and Blackstone's concept of the framework of English law. The result is an invaluable account of the legal bases of eighteenth-century society which is essential reading for historians at all levels.

Contents:

Dread of the crown office: the English magistracy and King's Bench, 1740-1800 / Douglas Hay

The trading justice's trade / Norma Landau

Impressment and the law in eighteenth-century Britain / Nicholas Rogers

War as a judicial resource. Press gangs and prosecution rates, 1740-1830 / Peter King

Making the 'bloody code'? Forgery legislation in eighteenth-century England / Randall McGowen

Mapping criminal law: Blackstone and the categories of English jurisprudence / David Lieberman

After Somerset: Mansfield, slavery and the law in England, 1772-1830 / Ruth Paley

Religion and the law: evidence, proof and 'matter of fact', 1660-1700 / Barbara Shapiro

The press and public apologies in eighteenth-century London / Donna T. Andrew

Origins of the factory acts: the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act, 1802 / Joanna Innes.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12815-3

1-280-15372-5

0-511-11739-6

0-511-04035-0

0-511-14819-4

0-511-30520-6

0-511-49588-9

0-511-05178-6

OCLC:

559149040