Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200-1900.
Leading scholars discuss how changing ideas of law and authority were embedded in the historical development of British legal systems.
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 The judicial interpretation of legislation in later thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England; 2 The authority of parliament and the scope of the Statute of Uses 1536; 3 Developing a prerogative theory for the authority of the Chancery: the French connection; 4 Authority and precedent; 5 Legislation and authority in early-modern Scotland; 6 The sources of early Scots consistorial law: reflections on law, authority and jurisdiction during the Scottish Reformation.
- 7 Conciliar authority and equitable jurisdiction in early-modern Scotland8 Legal authorities as instruments of conflict management: the long endgame of Anglo-Hanseatic relations (1474-1603); 9 History and the justification of governmental authority and individual rights in the age of John Locke and Samuel Pufendorf; 10 The commissioners for claims on France and the case of the Baron de Bode, 1815-1861; 11 The authority of law in a bureaucratic framework: the nineteenth-century medicine stamp duty; 12 The authority of treatises in English law (1800-1936).
