Law, liberty and the constitution : a brief history of the common law / Harry Potter.
2015
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Law, liberty and the constitution : a brief history of the common law / Harry Potter.
Published
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : The Boydell Press, 2015.
Copyright
© 2015
Call Number
KD671 .P676 2015
ISBN
9781783270118 (hardback : acid-free paper)
178327011X (hardback : acid-free paper)
9781782044819
178327011X (hardback : acid-free paper)
9781782044819
Description
352 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)892462252
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-333) and index.
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Brief history of the common law
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Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Soll Fund
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Abbreviations
x
Introduction
1
pt. I
LAYING DOWN THE LAW: 600--1500
1.
The Promulgation of the Law in Anglo-Saxon England
9
2.
The Enforcement of the Law in Anglo-Saxon England
23
3.
A Norman Yoke?
33
4.
Henry II and the Creation of the Common Law
46
5.
Becket and Criminous Clergy
52
6.
The Achievement of Henry II
62
7.
Magna Carta
69
8.
From Ordeal to Jury
77
9.
Legal Eagles
82
pt. II
CONFLICT OF LAWS: 1500--1766
10.
The King's Conscience, the Lord Chancellor's Foot
97
11.
Star Chamber: Keeping England in Quiet
103
12.
Torture
109
13.
The Writ and Charter of Liberty
115
14.
Rex Lex v. Lex Rex: Sir Edward Coke
119
15.
Oedipus Lex: The Trial of Charles I
133
16.
Free-born John
149
17.
From Restoration to Revolution and Reaction
157
pt. III
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LAW: 1766--1907
18.
The Purity of England's Air
173
19.
The Menace of the Mob
185
20.
The Fear of the Felon
197
21.
Garrow's Law?
201
22.
The Tongue of Cicero: Thomas Erskine
206
23.
The Drum Major of Liberty: Henry Brougham
218
24.
The Bonfire of the Inanities: Peel, Public Protection and the Police
224
25.
Lunacy and the Law
232
26.
Necessity Knows No Law
241
27.
The Apollo of the Bar: Edward Marshall Hall
252
pt. IV
THE RULE OF LAW: 1907--2014
28.
"The Martyrdom of Adolph Beck' and the Creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal
261
29.
Liberty Sacrificed to Security
267
30.
Nuremberg and Norman Birkett
276
31.
Wrongs and Rights
285
32.
Deprave and Corrupt: Blasphemy, Obscenity and Oscar Wilde
289
33.
Hanging in the Balance
305
34.
A Murder in Catford
314
35.
The Rule of Law under Threat?
319
Bibliography
327
Index
335