Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2002. - 272 p. - ISBN: 1847313264, 9781847313263. While much fundamental research in the recent past has been devoted to the criminal jury in England to 1800, there has been little work on the nineteenth century, and on the civil jury. This important study fills these obvious gaps in the literature. It also provides a re-assessment of standard issues...
London: C. Kegan Paul and Co. 1879. — 756 p. The Codification of the Laws of England has been long and earnestly desired. The great boon its acomplishment would secure to all classes has been universally proclaimed; but the dimensions and difficulties of the task would appear hitherto to have been regarded as sufficiently formidable to discourage the undertalking of a work of...
London: Cavendish Publishing Limited. 1996. — 483 p. Today, when law courses are more popular than ever before, students can have real difficulty in getting at the materials they need. Libraries are often not large enough, or not sufficiently well stocked, to cater for all those who want to use them. Part-time students can be at a special disadvantage. In the end, the struggle...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1888. — 262 p. Edward Wilde, late of Sandyford, in the county of Stafford, died February 7, 1879, leaving a will duly executed, by which, after certain specific pecuniary legacies, he bequeathed the residue of his personal estate to Thomas Wilde, his nephew, absolutely, subject to a gift over in certain events hich did not happen. He appointed...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1887. — 814 p. The want having been felt of some memoranda of the changes which have taken place among the Judges and Law Officers, and of the new appointments which have been made, the Council of Law Reporting he caused the following list to be complied. In contains the names of all the Judges of the Superior Courts and Law Officers of the...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1875. — 412 p. Action brought to recover damages for injures sustained by the plaintiff through the defenfants neglince, while he was travelling as a passenger of their line. The cause was tried at Stafford, before Pigott, B., at the last Summer Assizes. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 217 I.; but, as it appeared that he had...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1884. — 1030 p. A trustee investing trust funds is justified in employing a broker to procure securities authorized by the trust and paying the purchase-money to the broker, if he folows the usual and regular course of business adopted by ordinary prudent men in making such investments.
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1873. — 780 p. Declaration for that before and at the time of the retainer and employment of the defendant, and of his committing the grievances hereinafter mentioned, the defendant carried on and exercised the business of an average adjuster, and that before the said retainer and employment, and before the committing of the said grievances, a...
London: George Bell and Sons. 1903. — 536 p. In putting before the public a work like the present Iam aware that I run the risk of being relentlessly criticised. "Was there ever seen a more motley collection of historical sources? Is there any one train of thought followed out, any system at all of selection? The documents chosen cover the modest period of nine hundred years of...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1881. — 890 p. On the 12 August 1879 a woman was convicted of being drunk and disorderly by a metropolitan police magistrate sitting at Lambeth in Surrey, and ajudged to be imprisoned in the Westminster prison in Middlesex. By a warrant of commitment in the form P 1 in the shedule to 11 and 12 Vict. c. 43 the magistrate commanded the appellant...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1871. — 688 p. By a deed of composition under the Bankruptsy Act, 1861, the debtor assigned all his lands, goods, to trustees, and covenanted that he would carry on or wind up his business under their superintendence and control, and that all moneys, accruing in respect of the business should be deposited in a bank, and that he would act under...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1879. — 606 p. Outside the cover of a paper book of coupons forming a railway ticked, issued to the plaintiff by the defendants, was printed the name of their railway, the words "Cheap return ticket, London to Paris and back, Second class," and a statement of the period and journey for which the ticket was available, but no reference to the...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1879. — 512 p. G. having been guilty of forgery, absconded. The defendants published a handbill offering a reward of 200 l. "to any person giving such information to A. superintendent of police, Dewsbury, or to H. superintendent of police, Wakefield, as will lead to the apprehension of the said G."
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-12227-7. By presenting original research into British legal history, this volume emphasises the historical shaping of the law by ideas of authority. The essays offer perspectives upon the way that ideas of authority underpinned the conceptualisation and interpretation of legal sources over time and became embedded in...
Brill, 2009. — 505 p. — ISBN: 978-90-04-17466-5. This book offers a fundamental reassessment of the origins of a central court in Scotland. It examines the early judicial role of Parliament, the development of 'the Session' in the fifteenth century as a judicial sitting of the King's Council, and its reconstitution as the College of Justice in 1532. Drawing on new archival...
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1878. — 574 p. The defendants, a telegram company, through the negligence of their servants, delivered to the plaintiffs a message which was not intended for them. The plaintiffs, who reasonably supposed that the message came from their agents and was intended for them, acted upon it and thereby incurred a loss.
London: William Clowes and Sons, 1877. — 640 p. Statement of claim incorporated the particulars set forth in the special indorsement on the writ, which were in respect of work done by the plaintiffs for the defendant, in the year 1873. The 2nd paragraph of the statement of defence stated that proceedings for liquidation by arrangement under the Bunkruptcy Act, 1869, had been...
London: By William Clowes and Sons. 1876. — 850 p. Declaration in prohibition, the substance of which was, that the plaintiffs complained that process of foreign attachment had been issued in an action in the Mayor s Court against them, as garnishees, by the Mayor s Court of London, they being a corporation, and not liable by law to any process of foreign attachment; and that...
London: Stevens and Sons. 1896. — 152 p. The form of Appeal by motion, which was introduced by the Act of 1875, and adopted by its successor of 1888, has not been found so simple and workable as had been anticipated from a procedure the avowed object of which was to cheapen and facilitate Appeals from County Court.
London: William Benning. 1827. — 596 p. A Collection of the Cases relative to the Law of Corporations has been long wanted: upwards of thirty years have elapsed since the appearance of the last work which professed to treat generally on the subjects. Under the genius of Lord Mansfield it began to assume the regularity of system; but had not attained its perfection when Mr. Kyds...
London: William Benning and Co. 1848. — 559 p. The necessity of a Work upon the Law and Practice of the High Prerogative Writ of Mandamus, was made known to the Author during his pupillage in the Chambers of a Special Pleader, when having such a writ to pepare, he was informed that the only sources from whence the Student or Practioner could obtain any information upon this...
London: William Clowes and sons.1887. — 742 p. The need has-long been felt of some trustworthy exposition present state of the law relating to Criminal and Informations, Mandamus, and subjects. Quo Warranto Very many years Prohibition. have elapsed since the appearance of a of the on any of these treatise. Meanwhile the law has undergone profound modification, and the procedure...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 637 p. — ISBN: 978-0-191850-40-3. Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present and, combined with Baker and Milsom's Sources...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 261 p. For the first two thirds of the twentieth century, British government was among the most stable in the world. In the last three decades it has been a leader in innovation and its governing system has been in constant turmoil. This book, by one of Britain's leading political scientists, explains this transformation and traces its...