| Description |
ix, 252 pages ; 24 cm |
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Introduction : putting the legal treatise in its place / Angela Fernandez and Markus D Dubber -- Historicising Blackstone's commentaries on the laws of England : difference and sameness in historical time / Kunal M Parker -- 'Of institutes and treatises' : Blackstone's commentaries, Kent's commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the laws of Nova-Scotia / Philip Girard -- Tapping Reeve, coverture and America's first legal treatise / Angela Fernandez -- Story'd paradigms for the nineteenth-century display of Lnglo-American legal doctrine / G Blaine Baker -- A province of jurisprudence? : invention of a law of constitutional conventions / Roman J. Hoyos -- Nineteenth-century treatises on English contract law / Stephen Waddams -- Of treatises and textbooks: the literature of the criminal law in nineteenth-century Britain / Lindsay Farmer -- Truth and privilege : libel treatises and the transmission of legal norms in the early nineteenth-century Anglo-American world / Lyndsay Campbell -- Renovate or rebuild? treatises, digests and criminal law codification / Barry Wright -- A low law counter treatise? 'absentees' to 'wreck' in British North America's first justice of the peace manual / Jim Phillips -- Commentary : effects of scale : toward a history of the literature of law / Christopher Tomlins |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Legal research -- Great Britain -- History.
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Legal research -- United States -- History.
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Legal research -- Canada -- History.
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Practice of law -- Great Britain -- History.
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Practice of law -- United States -- History.
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Practice of law -- Canada -- History.
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| Author |
Fernandez, Angela, 1973-
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Dubber, Markus Dirk.
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| ISBN |
9781849461412 |
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1849461414 |
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