English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield
By James Oldham
448 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 20 illus., appends., notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-5532-4
Published: July 2004 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-6400-5
Published: December 2005 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7119-0
Published: December 2005
Studies in Legal History
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While considerable scholarship has been devoted to the eighteenth-century English criminal trial, little attention has been given to the civil side. This book helps to fill that gap, providing an understanding of the principal body of substantive law with which America's founding fathers would have been familiar. It is an invaluable reference for practicing lawyers, scholars, and students of Anglo-American legal history.
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James Oldham is St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History at Georgetown University Law Center.
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"A proper understanding and appreciation of the role of this immensely important chief justice are essential for any scholar of English and American legal history. James Oldham has provided both, with erudition and skill."--David Konig, Washington University at St. Louis
"Until Oldham's original two-volume Mansfield Manuscripts was published, the legal history of the eighteenth century was something of a black hole, the subject having been very patchily investigated. This new volume makes Oldham's work on Mansfield more readily accessible, providing a history of English law in the age of Mansfield. Given the fact that contemporary Anglo-American common law has been developed out of that body of law, this volume is bound to be welcomed by the scholarly community."--A. W. Brian Simpson, University of Michigan Law School