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1 online resource (263 pages) |
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| Summary |
The essays in this collection explore the history of the legal treatise in the common law world, and ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Prelims; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Putting the Legal Treatise in Its Place; 1. Historicising Blackstone''s Commentaries on The Laws of England; 2. ''Of Institutes and Treatises'': Blackstone''s Commentaries, Kent''s Commentaries and Murdoch''s Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia; 3. Tapping Reeve, Coverture and America''s First Legal Treatise; 4. Story''d Paradigms for the Nineteenth-Century Display of Anglo-American Legal Doctrine; 5. A Province of Jurisprudence?: Invention of a Law of Constitutional Conventions; 6. Nineteenth-Century Treatises on English Contract Law. |
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7. Of Treatises and Textbooks: the Literature of the Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain8. Truth and Privilege: Libel Treatises and the Transmission of Legal Norms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World; 9. Renovate or Rebuild? Treatises, Digests and Criminal Law Codification; 10. A Low Law Counter Treatise? ''Absentees'' to ''Wreck'' in British North America''s First Justice of the Peace Manual; 11. Commentary: Effects of Scale: Toward a History of the Literature of Law; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Legal research -- Great Britain -- History.
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Legal research. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Legal research -- United States -- History.
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United States. |
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Legal research -- Canada -- History.
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Canada. |
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Practice of law -- Great Britain -- History.
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Practice of law. |
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Practice of law -- United States -- History.
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Practice of law -- Canada -- History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Geschiedenis (vorm)
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| Added Author |
Dubber, Markus D.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781849461412 |
| ISBN |
9781847319227 (electronic book) |
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184731922X (electronic book) |
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9781849461412 (Cloth) |
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1849461414 (Cloth) |
| Standard No. |
9786613921994 |
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