The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century

New analysis and interpretation of law and legal institutions in the "long eighteenth century".

List of contents

Introduction - David Lemmings
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 W 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

About the author

David Lemmings

Product details

• Authors: David Lemmings
• Assisted by: David Lemmings (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2005
• EAN: 9781843831587
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-158-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 242 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Rechtsgeschichte, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History