Legal History

This book focuses on a key case study in the history of American territories, public works, transportation and the constitutional system of checks ...

In May 1928, the body of George Edey was discovered on his Saskatchewan farm, leading to the swift arrest of a deaf and mentally disabled farmhand ...

This work explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of ...

While Irish historical writing has long been in thrall to the perceived sectarian character of the legal system, this collection is the first to co...

Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recor...

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough reexamination of the background, dyn...

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administra...

The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens p...

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores ...

Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents es...

Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents es...

One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produce...

Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the large...

The debate about when the middle ages ended and the modern era began, has long been a staple of the historical literature. In order to further this...

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which j...

This book reveals the neglected world of the English manorial tenure of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is rooted in landmark legislatio...

Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of ...

Modern criminal courts are characteristically the domain of lawyers, with trials conducted in an environment of formality and solemnity, where fact...

State Trials, Volume II (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with witchcraft, the scandals of the prisons, and colonial administratio...

State Trials, Volume I (first published in 1972) contains cases concerned with treason and the freedom of press gathered from the full edition of S...