The Political context of law : proceedings of the seventh British Legal History Conference Canterbury 1985 / edited by Richard Eales and David Sullivan.

London : Hambledon Press, 1987.

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Law -- History -- Congresses.

1. The lawbooks of medieval Wales; 2. The brieve of right revisited; 3. Chief Justice and felon: the career of Thomas Weyland; 4. The administration of criminal justice in late medieval England: peace sessions and assizes; 5. The Henrician Assizes and the enforcement of the reformation; 6. The strategies of rhetoric in St. German's Doctor and Student; 7. Usury in the Elizabethan Exchequer; 8. Knowledge of the English criminal law in Poland at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 9. The appointment of sheriffs and administration of justice in nineteenth-century Ireland; 10. Shooting the Elephant: historians and the problem of frontier lawlessness; 11. The royal prerogative or a statutory code? the War Office and contingency legal planning, 1885-1914; 12. The origins of the Nolo plea.

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