Law, crime and English society, 1660-1830 / edited by Norma Landau.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Blackstone, William, -- 1723-1780.

Law -- Great Britain -- History.

Criminal law -- Great Britain -- History.

Crime -- Great Britain -- History.

Sociological jurisprudence -- History.

Justice, Administration of -- History.

Courts -- History.

Slavery -- History.

Religion and law -- History.

Factory laws and legislation.

Great Britain -- Social conditions.

1. Introduction

Part I. Law: 2. Dread of the Crown Office: the English magistracy and King's Bench, 1740-1800

3. The trading justice's trade

4. Impressment and the law in eighteenth-century Britain

Part II. Crime: 5. War as a judicial resouce: press gangs and prosecution rates, 1740-1830

6. Making the bloody code?: forgery legislation in eighteenth-century England

7. Mapping criminal law: Blackstone and the categories of English jurisprudence

Part III. Society: 8. After Somerset: Mansfield, slavery and the law in England, 1772-1830

9. Religion and the law: evidence, proof and matter of fact, 1660-1700

10. The press and public apologies in eighteenth-century London

11. Origins of the factory acts: the Health and Morals of Apprentices Act 1802

John M. Beattie's publications.

Includes index.

0521642612

xii, 264 p.