The British and their laws in the eighteenth century / edited by David Lemmings.

Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, 2005.

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Law -- Great Britain -- History.

Legislation -- History.

Rule of law -- History.

Justice, Administration of -- History.

1. Introduction

2. Custom, nature, and authority : the roots of English legal positivism

3. Legislation, magistrates, and judges : high law and low law in England and the empire

4. The promulgation of the statutes in late Hanoverian Britain

5. Legislation and public participation 1760-1830

6. The experience of litigation in eighteenth-century England

7. Litigation, participation, and agency in seventeenth-and-eighteenth-century England

8. 'Making examples' and the crisis of punishment in mid-eighteenth-century England

9. Virginia and the imperial state : law, enlightenment, and 'the crooked cord of discretion'

10. Judges and the application of imperial law in eastern Australia, 1788-1836 : resistance and reception.

Includes index.

9781843831587

ix, 260 p.