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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813462603321

Titolo

Law reporting in Britain / / editor, Chantal Stebbings

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : Hambledon Press, , 1995

ISBN

1-283-20641-2

9786613206411

1-4411-5542-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 197 pages)

Disciplina

348.41/041

344.10841

Soggetti

Law reporting - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Collection of most of the principal papers delivered at the 11th British Legal History Conference, held in July 1993 at the University of Exeter, U.K."--Preface.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; List of Contributors; The British Legal History Conference; 1 The Beginnings of English Law Reporting; 2 Crime in the Year Books; 3 Some Early Newgate Reports (1315-28); 4 The Acts of the Scottish Lords of Council in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries: Records and Reports; 5 Law Reporting in the 1590's; 6 Sir Julius Ceasar's Notes on Admiralty Cases: An Alternative to Law Reporting?; 7 Law Reports in England from 1603 to 1660; 8 The Nature and Function of the Early Chancery Reports

9 Detecting Non-Fiction: Sleuthing among Manuscript Case Reports for what was Really Said; 10 Words, Words, Words: Making Sense of Legal Judgments, 1875-1940; 11 Planning Law and Precedent: A Study in Twentieth-Century Law Reporting

Sommario/riassunto

Unlike the preceding volumes in this series, ""Law Reporting in Britain"" has a single, clear theme: the history and development of law reporting in Britain, from the earliest English reports of the second half of the 13th century to the beginnings of the reporting of planning decisions in the 20th century. Law reports are one of the main sources from which legal history is written. They record what lawyers and judges said in court in legal argument arising out of the facts of particular cases



and how the judges decided the outcome of those cases.