tailieunhanh - Law, Crime and English Society, 1660–1830

This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered and used in eighteenth-century England. An international team of leading historians explore the ways in which legal concerns and procedures came to permeate society, and reflect on eighteenth-century concepts of corruption, oppression and institutional efficiency. These themes are pursued throughout in a broad range of contributions, which include studies of magistrates and courts, the forcible enlistment of soldiers and sailors, the eighteenth-century ‘bloody code’, the making of law basic to nineteenth-century social reform, the populace’s extension of law’s arena to newspapers, theologians’ use of assumptions basic to English law, Lord Chief Justice Mansfield’s concept of the liberty intrinsic to England and. | Law Crime and English society 1660-1830 Edited by NORMA LANDAU This page intentionally left blank Law Crime and English Society 1660-1830 This book examines how the law was made defined administered and used in eighteenth-century England. An international team of leading historians explore the ways in which legal concerns and procedures came to permeate society and reflect on eighteenth-century concepts of corruption oppression and institutional efficiency. These themes are pursued throughout in a broad range of contributions which include studies of magistrates and courts the forcible enlistment of soldiers and sailors the eighteenth-century bloody code the making of law basic to nineteenth-century social reform the populace s extension of law s arena to newspapers theologians use of assumptions basic to English law Lord Chief Justice Mansfield s concept of the liberty intrinsic to England and Blackstone s concept of the framework of English law. The result is an invaluable account of the legal bases of eighteenth-century society which is essential reading for historians at all levels. NORMA LANDAU is the author of The justices of the peace 1679-1760 published in .

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• Crown Office
• English magistracy
• King’s Bench
• Forgery legislation
• the categoriescentury England