Law reporting in England / edited by Chantal Stebbings

Hambledon Press, London : 1995

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Law reporting in Britain: proceedings of the eleventh British Legal History Conference, Oxford 1993

Law -- History -- Congresses.

Law reporters.

Law reporters -- History.

1. The beginnings of English law reporting; 2. Crime in the year books; 3. Some early Newgate reports (1315-28); 4. The Acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: records and reports; 5. Law reporting in the 1590s; 6. Sir Julius Caesar's notes on admiralty cases: an alternative to law reporting?; 7. Law reports in England from 1603 to 1660; 8. The nature and function of the early Chancery reports; 9. Detecting non-fiction: sleuthing among manuscript case reports for what was really said; 10. Words, words, words: making sense of legal judgments, 1875-1940; Planning law and precedent: a study in twentieth-century law reporting.

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