The common law and English jurisprudence, 1760-1850
The common law and English jurisprudence, 1760-1850
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Edition Details
- Creator or Attribution (Responsibility): Michael Lobban
- Language: English
- Jurisdiction(s): England
- Publication Information: Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
- Publication Type (Medium): History
- Material: Internet resource
- Type: Book, Internet Resource
- Permalink: https://books.lawi.org.uk/the-common-law-and-english-jurisprudence-1760-1850/ (Stable identifier)
Additional Format
Online version: Lobban, Michael. Common law and English jurisprudence, 1760-1850. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1991 (OCoLC)706874011
Short Description
XVI, 315 pages ; 23 cm
Purpose and Intended Audience
Useful for students learning an area of law, The common law and English jurisprudence, 1760-1850 is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.
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Bibliographic information
- Publishers: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press
- Responsable Person: Michael Lobban.
- Publication Date: 1991
- Country/State: England
- Number of Editions: 14 editions
- First edition Date: 1991
- Last edition Date: 2001
- General Notes: Based on the author’s thesis (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).
- Languages: English
- Awards: Joint winner for SPTL Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 1992.
- Library of Congress Code: KD671
- Dewey Code: 349.42
- ISBN: 0198252935 9780198252931
- OCLC: 23046948
Main Contents
The common law and the “Commentaries”; the logic of the law; the sources of legal judgement; Bentham and the complete code of laws; Bentham’s classification and analyses; the debate over codification; John Austin’s analytical jurisprudence; rules and remedies in early 19th-century law.
Summary Note
This treatise argues that a proper understanding of English law and jurisprudence in the period 1760 to 1850 is needed to clarify the nature of common-law practice and the way in which it was envisaged by its practitioners.
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