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Cambridge University Press The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England
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Cambridge University Press Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State
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Cambridge University Press Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Manipulation on Trial
Book SynopsisThis book is the first economic analysis of the Hunt silver case, the biggest manipulation case ever brought to trial. Drawing on interviews with the judge, jury and attorneys, as well as his own experience as an expert witness, the author focuses on the economic analyses used at the trial and investigates the problems introduced when economic analysis enters complex litigation.Trade Review"...should be interesting and instructive reading for business economists, especially for those who would venture into the loosely-charted, interdisciplinary world of forensic economics." Samuel C. Webb and Jen-Chi Cheng, Southern Economic Journal"For those interested in the intersections of law and economics, the volume will be a wonderful resource." Jonathan R. Macey, Journal of Economic LiteratureTable of ContentsList of figures; List of tables; Preface; Foreword Thomas O. Gorman; 1. Why the Hunt silver case? 2. Turmoil in the silver market; 3. Identifying a manipulation; 4. Testing for the cause of the price rise in silver; 5. Determining the appropriate price of silver; 6. Inferring manipulative intent; 7. The predicament of economic analysis in the courtroom; Glossary of commodity market terms; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Prosecution and Punishment
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Cambridge University Press History of the Law of Charity 15321827
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Cambridge University Press Bills and Acts Legislative procedure in EighteenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press English Law in Ireland 12901324 Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
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Cambridge University Press The Proclamations of the Tudor Kings
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Cambridge University Press Edward I and Criminal Law
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Cambridge University Press The Proclamations of the Tudor Queens
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Cambridge University Press Gentlemen and Poachers The English Game Laws 16711831
Book SynopsisThe eighteenth-century English game laws have long been synonymous with petty tyranny. By imposing a property qualification on sportsmen, they effectively denied all but country gentlemen the right to take game or even to possess a gun. Those who challenged the gentry's monopoly were fined or imprisoned, usually after only a summary hearing by the local justice of the peace. In the early nineteenth century, it was claimed that one out of every four inmates in England's prisons was an offender against the game laws. Bitterly denounced at the time, they have continued to be condemned by historians as arbitrary, savage and unjust. This book is the first full scholarly examination of the English game laws. Based on material drawn from over two dozen archives - including judicial records, estate correspondence and personal diaries - it attempts to explain what the laws actually were, why they were passed, how they were enforced and why they were eventually repealed. The picture which emergeTable of Contents1. The game laws; 2. Field sports and game preservation; 3. Poachers and the black market; 4. The enforcement of the game laws; 5. Early opposition to the game laws; 6. The reform of the game laws; 7. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Peace Treaties and International Law in European History From the Late Middle Ages to World War One
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Cambridge University Press Legal Foundations of Tribunals in NineteenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era
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Cambridge University Press Class Conflict Slavery and the United States Constitution
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Cambridge University Press Colonial Justice in British India White Violence and the Rule of Law 17 Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society Series Number 17
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Cambridge University Press Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama
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Cambridge University Press The Internationalisation of Copyright Law Books Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century 8 Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism
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Cambridge University Press The Laws of the Kings of England From Edmund to Henry I
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Cambridge University Press Crime and Justice in Late Medieval Italy
Book SynopsisIn this important study, Trevor Dean examines the history of criminal justice in late medieval Italy. Drawing on a diverse and innovative range of sources, Dean demonstrates how knowledge of the history of criminal justice can illuminate our wider understanding of the Middle Ages.Trade Review"Historians working in a number of fields will undoubtedly want to tackle his conclusions and forward the debate--perhaps the best kind of compliment for a book of this sort... This is a book that provides both the theoretical justification for its approach and the practical demonstration of its worth, and it deserves a very wide readership." -Frances Andrews, H-Law"Dean writes with a clear, straightforward, and even Spartan style...a nuanced examination of crime throughout Italy, providing a much needed survey of Italian criminal justice." Sarah Whitten, UCLA, Comitatus"This is a carefully constructed, well-written, even understated study of an important set of issues in social and legal history. Those who read it...will be impelled to move beyond where Dean has gone, less because of failings or omissions than because of his sensible lead." -Thoman Kuehn, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies"Social historians, legal historians, and students of medieval Italy will be glad to find a place on thier shelves for this engaging, well-written, and superbly researched book." -Blake R. Beattie, The HistorianTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Sources: 1. Trial records; 2. Chronicles; 3. Fiction; 4. Statute law; 5. Consilia; Part II. Description and Analysis: 6. Insult and revenge; 7. Sex crimes; 8. Potions and poisons; 9. Violence; 10. Theft; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press American Politicians Confront the Court Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power
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Cambridge University Press Industrial Violence and the Legal Origins of Child Labor
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Cambridge University Press The Legacies of Law
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Cambridge University Press AngloSaxon Charters Volume 1 AngloSaxon Charters in the Vernacular 3 Volume Set
Book SynopsisThis volume, first published in 1939 (2nd ed., 1956), contains the original Old English texts, with translations and commentaries, of over 130 documents dating from the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries. It includes royal and 'private' (nonroyal) charters, some episcopal leases, a few wills, and several records generated by processes of litigation; it also includes a number of miscellaneous texts, such as inventories and estate surveys. The reissue of Dr Robertson's book is complemented by reissues of Florence Harmer's Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries (1914), and of Dorothy Whitelock's Anglo-Saxon Wills (1930). Between them, the three volumes represent the surviving corpus of Anglo-Saxon documents in the vernacular, to set beside the corpus of royal diplomas (in Latin) and writs (in English), and the corpus of Anglo-Saxon legislation, and to serve at the same time as evidence of the uses of written English in the Anglo-Saxon period.Table of ContentsA note by the former General Editor; Preface; List of abbreviations; Extensive list of charters, land leases and legal agreements; Appendices; Notes; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press A History of the County Court 18461971 Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
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Cambridge University Press The Classical Foundations of the American Constitution
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Cambridge University Press The Law of Evidence in Victorian England
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Cambridge University Press The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Law and the Foundations of American Constitutionalism
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Cambridge University Press American Politicians Confront the Court Opposition Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power
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Cambridge University Press Law Society and History
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Cambridge University Press Laws Imagined Republic Popular Politics and Criminal Justice in Revolutionary America Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
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Cambridge University Press An Essay on the Early History of the Law Merchant
Book SynopsisThis 1904 volume discusses the early history of the Law Merchant, an international body of rules and principles created by medieval western merchants, distinct from the common law of the areas in which it operated. Mitchell argues that the system was based upon a pragmatic attitude to solving disputes.Table of Contents1. General characteristics; 2. The rise of the law merchant; 3. The courts of the law merchant; 4. Persons; 5. Sales and contracts; Conclusion; Appendices; Authorities; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Law Magistracy and Crime in Old Regime Paris 17351789
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Cambridge University Press Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition 19001932
Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the US by tracing the development of regulated competition. Conceptualized by Brandeis and implemented by trade associations and the Federal Trade Commission, regulated competition checked economic power by channelling competition from predation into improvement in products and production processes.Trade Review'Berk's nuanced study of Brandeis is about the rejection of preordained categories and rigid formulas, by extraordinary policymakers and also by social scientists who seek to understand them. Ultimately, it is about the limitless possibility of politics to reorder familiar arrangements of state and economy in the interests of a differently-conceived world. Its publication could hardly be more timely.' Karen Orren, University of California, Los Angeles'A masterpiece of counter-factual reasoning, this book challenges the orthodoxy that markets and regulation are incompatible alternatives. Berk shows how Louis Brandeis' theory of 'regulated competition' offered the principles for a very different kind of relationship between government and economy that could have changed the course of the twentieth-century. At the juncture at which America was transforming from a market economy and a laissez-faire state to a corporate economy and a regulative state, Berk's compelling historical analysis shows that the path could have been different. This is institutional history at its best.' William Roy, University of California, Los Angeles'Berk recovers for us an improbably prescient Brandeis: an advocate and institutional architect who helps demonstrate the feasibility of a market order of 'regulated competition' that avoids the traditional, limited choice between antipathy to all business cooperation or regulated monopoly and, instead, encourages innovation while reducing the dangers of concentration (and we might hope today – the viral diffusion of catastrophic behaviors) through a Federally sponsored exchange of best practices and cost benchmarks within and across industry groups. This is history the way and when we need it.' Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School'Civic Enterprise raises to a new level the distinctive strength of Gerry Berk's work: his capacity to radically alter our understanding of classic issues and episodes in American political development on the basis of new and original historical research inspired by current theoretical and comparative debates, while recasting and enriching the categories of those debates themselves in light of his empirical findings. This book is thus likely to attract a wide interdisciplinary audience and consolidate Berk's reputation as one of the premier scholars of American political development of his generation.' Jonathan Zeitlin, University of WisconsinTable of Contents1. Creative syncretism; Part I. Brandies and the Theory of Regulated Competition: 2. Republican experimentalism and regulated competition; 3. Learning from railroad regulation; 4. The origins of an ambiguous Federal Trade Commission; Part II. Regulated Competition in Practice: 5. Cultivational governance at the Federal Trade Commission; 6. Deliberative polyarchy and developmental associations; 7. From collective action to collaborative learning: developmental association in commercial printing; Part III. Regulated Competition Contested: 8. The politics of accountability; Part IV. Conclusion: 9. Civic enterprise; Appendix A. Industries and number of associations with at least substantial involvement in developmental association, by industry group.
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Cambridge University Press The Nuremberg SSEinsatzgruppen Trial 19451958 Atrocity Law and History
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Cambridge University Press General Jurisprudence
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Cambridge University Press Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages Frankish Formulae c5001000 75 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 75
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Cambridge University Press Race Ethnicity and the Treatment of Disability in PostCivil War America
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Cambridge University Press Common Law History and Democracy in America 17901900
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Cambridge University Press Law Magistracy and Crime in Old Regime Paris 1735 1789
Book SynopsisBy reconstructing the general system of royal criminal justice in France, Richard Andrews explores the political system connected to it: the formation, authority and ethos of the magistracy and its relation to the monarchy, the Church, the aristocracy, the bourgeois and the plebeians.Trade Review"Richard Mowery Andrews's industry and archival commitment were legendary, even among the members of that formidable group. Only now has he produced--or begun to produce, since this is the first of two volumes on Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris--the major work that vindicates his earlier reputation." Times Literary Supplement"There is much here for students who want an introduction to criminal law and for anyone who wants insights into the judicial system." Thomas Brennan, Law and History Review"Students of French Old Regime law, crime, and society will welcome the appearance of Andrews' study of Parisian crime and its judgment by the Chatelet and Parlement of Paris--tribunals whose vast jurisdictions in the capital and its region made them the monarchy's most important judicatures....[Andrews'] study transcends the legal, political, or prosopographical foci of existing studies of these courts to examine their actual administration of criminal justice, and his conclusions challenge historians to reexamine long-held assumptions about Old Regime society and criminal law....this first volume of Andrews' study gives historians much to anticipate in his second volume, which will examine the crimes and criminals that appeared before the Paris courts." Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsList of illustrations, charts, and tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Principal sources and abbreviations; General introduction: A. The metropolis and its region; B. The judiciary within the city; C. The judiciary within the state; Part I. Themistocracy: Introduction: meanings; 1. The Châtelet of Paris; 2. The Parlement of Paris; 3. Themistocrats; 4. A Fourth Estate: the uniqueness of the themistocracy; 5. Themistocratic family and kinship: the Maussions and their allies; 6. Professional culture; Conclusion: rule of law; Appendix: letter of appointment for Augustin Testard du Lys; Part II. Punishment: Introduction: imagery; 7. Liability and immunity; 8. Purposes; 9. Forms; 10. Royal mercy; Conclusion: tradition and modernity; Appendix: arrest de la cour du Parlement; Part III. Trial and Judgement: The Procedure of the 1670 Criminal Ordinance: Introduction: origins and legend; 11. Initiating judicial action; 12. Preparatory instruction; 13. Definitive instruction; 14. Interlocutory judgement; 15. Definitive judgement; Conclusion: principles; Appendix: penal decision, a mathematical model; Part IV. Trials and Judgments: Illustrative Cases: Introduction: the case record; 16. Assault; 17. Theft; 18. Murder; Conclusion: judgement: knowledge or power?; Conclusion to volume I; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Origins of Law and Economics
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Cambridge University Press The Law of Evidence in Victorian England
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Cambridge University Press Evolution and the Common Law
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Cambridge University Press Records of the Salem WitchHunt
Book SynopsisThis book offers a record of legal documents written in 1692 and 1693 in connection with the Salem witch trials. It is the most comprehensive collection of those records ever published, and for the first time puts them in chronological order, all transcribed from the original manuscripts.Trade Review'Few events of American history continue to grip our imagination as does the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692. This monumental new work of collaborative historical scholarship presents nearly a thousand legal documents relating to that outbreak, freshly edited with scrupulous care and introduced with a series of helpful essays. In this definitive assemblage of the episode's legal records, human anguish, terror, confusion, and grim certitude constantly break through the legalese. Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt will be welcomed not only by legal scholars, linguists, American Colonial historians, and students of witchcraft, but by all who continue to be drawn to the dark events that unfolded in a New England village more than three centuries ago.' Paul Boyer, co-author with Stephen Nissenbaum of Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft'Bernard Rosenthal and his exceptionally talented, international team of associate editors have produced the most comprehensive and carefully edited collection of legal documents from the Salem witch trials ever published. Unlike the three-volume collection of The Salem Witchcraft Papers, edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, who used the typescript prepared by the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal, the Rosenthal team has gone back to the original manuscripts and, in the process, corrected a number of serious errors of transcription. They have included more than thirty new documents either never published before or only printed in part. Unlike the earlier compilations that followed the practice of seventeenth-century courts in organizing the documents on a case-by-case basis in alphabetical order, this volume proceeds in chronological order, which permits the user to see on any given day how the larger crisis unfolded and how accusations against the victims were interrelated. Noting that scholars have disagreed sharply about the trials, Rosenthal declares that 'This edition will not settle these differences, but if it succeeds it will give the reader the most comprehensive, most carefully and consistently transcribed record ever produced of the Salem witch trials, as well as a chronological ordering of the documents.' His team has achieved this extraordinary goal.' John Murrin, Princeton University'Bernard Rosenthal and his international editorial team have produced an extraordinarily useful new edition of the Salem witch-trial records. Notable not only for its accurate transcriptions and revelatory chronological organization but also for its helpful general introductions and detailed annotations of individual documents, This volume will open new realms of inquiry to scholars and interested non-specialists alike. A truly remarkable editing achievement, it signals a great step forward in witchcraft studies.' Mary Beth Norton, author of In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692'Anyone who is interested in the witchcraft crisis that centered on Salem in 1962 will want to consult if not own this volume.' The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of Contents1. List of facsimile plates; 2. General introduction Bernard Rosenthal; 3. Legal procedures used during the Salem witch trials and a brief history of the published version of the records Richard Trask; 4. Linguistic introduction Peter Grund, Risto Hiltunen, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Merja Kytö, Matti Peikola and Matti Rissanen; 5. Editorial principles; 6. Chronological arrangement Bernard Rosenthal and Margo Burns; 7. List of the records of the Salem witch hunt; 8. The records; 9. Timeline: court of Oyer & Terminer and Superior Court of Judicature; 10. Biographical notes Marilynne K. Roach; 11. Works cited; 12. Acknowledgements; 13. Index.
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Cambridge University Press The English Historical Constitution
Book SynopsisThe fundamental legal and institutional changes of recent decades have brought the English constitution into question. Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European Union. These issues are not readily addressed in everyday thinking about a constitution simply conceived as unwritten or in constitutional accounts variously preoccupied with abstract analysis, political accountability or transcendent norms. The English Historical Constitution addresses these issues by developing a historical constitutional approach and thus elaborating on continuity and change in the constitution''s main doctrines and institutions. From an English legal perspective, it offers a complement or corrective to analytical, political and normative approaches by reforming an old conception of the historical constitution and of its history, partly obscured and long neglected thTrade Review'… a deeply impressive piece of legal scholarship. The depth of research is striking when dealing with topics more usually found in legal history books and the strength of analysis on topics of constitutional theory is both extraordinarily lucid and consistent.' The Law Quarterly Review'John Allison's new book is a welcome attempt to place - or rather to replace - a sense of history at the heart of English constitutional law scholarship. … Allison's analysis of the Crown is fascinating … In his nuanced and elegant treatment of the separation of powers … he traces many of the similarities and differences between the English and French understandings … Allison is (to my mind refreshingly) impatient with both the leading schools of thought on the sovereignty of Parliament … In a brilliant passage, Allison shows just how empty vague reliance on 'constitutional principle' can be. … He has valiantly demonstrated the need for constitutional lawyers to embrace as part of their scholarship a sense of history …' Modern Law Review'Regardless of whether one approves of, or is troubled by, the [recent constitutional] reforms, there is much in this book by way of intellectual nourishment for all students of constitutional law and history.' Commonwealth Lawyer'From Coke, through Dicey, to the Human Rights Act 1998, Allison beautifully describes the modes of gradual change of the English historical constitution.' American Journal of Legal History'The English Historical Constitution is an important work which deserves careful study by constitutional lawyers. … [It is] a book that is worth reading many times.' Public LawTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. A historical constitutional approach; 3. The crown: evolution through institutional change and conservation; 4. The separation of powers as a customary practice; 5. Parliamentary sovereignty and the European Community: the economy of the common law; 6. The brief rule of a controlling common law; 7. Dicey's progressive and reactionary rule of law; 8. Beyond Dicey; 9. Conclusion and implications.
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