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Lawyers, Litigation and English Society Since 1450

Christopher W. Brooks

ISBN13: 9781852851569

ISBN: 1852851562

Published: September 1998

Publisher: Hambledon Continuum

Country of Publication: UK

Format: Hardback

Price: £90.00

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In this series of essays, the author approaches the law from two different angles: the uses made of courts and the fluctuations in the fortunes of the legal profession. He also places the law into a wider social and political context.

Subjects:: Legal History

Contents:: Litigants and attorneys in King's Bench and common pleas, 1590-1640; interpersonal conflict and social tension - civil litigation in England, 1640-1830; litigation, state and society in England, 1200-1990; the decline and re-creation of the English legal profession in the 18th and 19th centuries; apprenticeship and legal education in the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries; law, lawyers and the social history of England, 1500-1850; the place of Magna Carta and the "ancient constitution" in 16th-century English legal thought; courts, legal discourse, and political consciousness in early 17th-century England.