Legal History category: 1513 books
Slavery and Freedom in Texas
Stories from the Courtroom, 1821–1871
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gillmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries—between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young—as rigid social orders are upset in ways...
Wrongful Deaths
Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and...
Searching for Justice After the Holocaust
Fulfilling the Terezin Declaration and Immovable Property Restitution
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
The Nazis and their state-sponsored cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate a frequently unclear path to recover their property from governments and neighbors who had failed to protect them and who often had been complicit...
Canadian State Trials, Volume IV
Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The fourth volume in the Canadian State Trials series examines the legal issues surrounding perceived security threats and the repression of dissent from the outset of World War One through the Great Depression. War prompted the development of new government powers and raised questions about citizenship...
Power, Politics, and Principles
Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long-term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. Utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of...
Forgery and Impersonation in Imperial China
Popular Deceptions and the High Qing State
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Across eighteenth-century China a wide range of common people forged government documents or pretended to be officials or other agents of the state. This examination of case records and law codes traces the legal meanings and social and political contexts of small-time swindles that were punished as grave political transgressions.
by David Foxton
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Karl Llewellyn described Thomas Scrutton as 'the greatest English-speaking commercial judge of a century'. Scrutton played a key role in a number of politically sensitive court cases from the Great War to the 1930s. This biography draws on unpublished sources to evaluate his contribution as counsel,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Master and servant acts, the cornerstone of English employment law for more than four hundred years, gave largely unsupervised, inferior magistrates wide discretion over employment relations, including the power to whip, fine, and imprison men, women, and children for breach of private contracts with...
Beyond Abortion
Roe v. Wade and the Battle for Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
For most Americans today, Roe v. Wade concerns just one thing: the right to choose abortion. But the Supreme Court’s decision once meant much more. The justices ruled that the right to privacy encompassed the abortion decision. Grassroots activists and politicians used Roe—and popular interpretations...
by J. M. Kaye
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This study of the documents used in medieval England for the creation and transfer of interests in real property is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject since the publication of Thomas Madox's Formulare Anglicanum in 1702. The transactions covered include grants in fee and in perpetual...
by Peter Birks
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law. Discovered in complete manuscript form following his death, the lectures are published here in paperback for the first time. The lectures present a clear conceptual...
Natural Law in Court
A History of Legal Theory in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Natural-law theory grounds human laws in universal truths of God’s creation. The task of the judicial system was to build an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. R. H. Helmholz shows how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in the West, and concludes that historically it has advanced the cause of justice.
Foundations of Private Law
Property, Tort, Contract, Unjust Enrichment
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Foundations of Private Law is a treatise on the Western law of property, contract, tort and unjust enrichment in both common law systems and civil law systems. The thesis of the book is that underlying these fields of law are common principles, and that these principles can be used to explain the...
The Body of Property
Antebellum American Fiction and the Phenomenology of Possession
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
What does it mean to own something? How does a thing become mine? Liberal philosophy since John Locke has championed the salutary effects of private property but has avoided the more difficult questions of property’s ontology. Chad Luck argues that antebellum American literature is obsessed with...