Author: Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The elements of the common lawes of England. (London,) 1630
Author: Francis BaconThe elements of the common lawes of England. (London,) 1630
Author: Francis BaconThomas Hobbes: Elements of Law
Author: Johann P. SommervillePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198916426
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Hobbes's Elements of Law was written in 1640, on the eve of the English Civil War. It circulated in manuscript, and eleven manuscripts now survive. Two of them contain a substantial amount of material in Hobbes's own handwriting. Soon after writing it, Hobbes fled to France, while in England civil war broke out over many of the issues discussed by Hobbes in this book. In France he wrote a Latin version of his political theory (De Cive, on the Citizen), and then the English Leviathan, of which a Latin revision followed and in which he greatly expanded what he had to say about religion and church-state relations. The Elements of Law presents a complete but succinct version of Hobbes's political theory and of his more general philosophy. It analyzes the nature of knowledge and science, discusses psychology and human nature, surveys the rights and duties of individuals, and argues for the need of states to be governed by sovereign authority. It discusses the relationship between politics and religion, and the extent and limitations of political power. It is 'a work of extraordinary assurance, an almost fully fledged statement of Hobbes's entire political philosophy'. (Noel Malcolm) This edition is intended to replace the one edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (1889), from which that of J.C.A. Gaskin (Oxford World's Classics, 1994) derives. It establishes a more accurate text based on all the eleven known manuscripts, and includes much material omitted by Tönnies (who knew of only six manuscripts). It draws extensively on modern scholarship on Hobbes and his contexts.
The Elements of the Common Lawes of England
Author: Francis BaconPublisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
History of the Common Law
Author: John H. LangbeinPublisher: Aspen Publishing
ISBN: 0735596042
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1310
Book Description
This introductory text explores the historical origins of the main legal institutions that came to characterize the Anglo-American legal tradition, and to distinguish it from European legal systems. The book contains both text and extracts from historical sources and literature. The book is published in color, and contains over 250 illustrations, many in color, including medieval illuminated manuscripts, paintings, books and manuscripts, caricatures, and photographs. Two great themes dominate the book: (1) the origins, development, and pervasive influence of the jury system and judge/jury relations across eight centuries of Anglo-American civil and criminal justice; and (2) the law/equity division, from the emergence of the Court of Chancery in the fourteenth century down through equity's conquest of common law in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The chapters on criminal justice explore the history of pretrial investigation, policing, trial, and sentencing, as well as the movement in modern times to nonjury resolution through plea bargaining. Considerable attention is devoted to distinctively American developments, such as the elective bench, and the influence of race relations on the law of criminal procedure. Other major subjects of this book include the development of the legal profession, from the serjeants, barristers, and attorneys of medieval times down to the transnational megafirms of twenty-first century practice; the literature of the law, especially law reports and treatises, from the Year Books and Bracton down to the American state reports and today's electronic services; and legal education, from the founding of the Inns of Court to the emergence and growth of university law schools in the United States.
The Law Emprynted and Englysshed
Author: David John HarveyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782257322
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
What impact did the printing press – a new means of communicating the written word – have on early modern English lawyers? This book examines the way in which law printing developed in the period from 1475 up until 1642 and the start of the English Civil War. It offers a new perspective on the purposes and structures of the regulation of the printing press and considers how and why lawyers used the new technology. It examines the way in which lawyers adapted to the use of printed works and the way in which the new technology increased the availability of texts and books for lawyers and the administrative community. It also considers the wider humanist context within which law printing developed. The story is set against the backdrop of revolutionary changes in English society and the move not only to print the law, but also increase its accessibility by making information available in English. The book will be of interest to lawyers and legal historians, print and book historians and the general reader.
A Catalogue of Pamphlets, Tracts, Proclamations, Speeches, Sermons, Trials, Petitions from 1506 to 1700 in the Library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A Catalogue of Pamphlets, Tracts, Proclamations, Speeches, Sermons, Trials, Petitions, from 1506 to 1700, in the Library of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: London (England). Inns of Court. Lincoln's InnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Check-list Or Brief Catalogue of the Library of Henry E. Huntington (English Literature to 1640)
Author: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art GalleryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Common Law and Liberal Theory
Author: James Reist StonerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this book, James Stoner's purpose is to recover the common law basis of American constitutionalism. American constitutionalism in general, he argues, and judicial review in particular, cannot be fully understood without acknowledging their roots in both common law and liberal political theory. But for the most part, the common law underpinnings of constitutionalism have received short shrift.