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Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

xii, 264 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Law--Great Britain--History.
Criminal law--Great Britain--History.
Crime--Great Britain--History.
Sociological jurisprudence.
England--Social conditions.
Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Other Authors:

Landau, Norma.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780521642613 (hbk.)
0521642612 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50301707
(OCoLC)51070033

LCCN:

2002513368

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)