Law-making and law-makers in British history papers presented to the Edinburgh Legal History Conference, 1977 / edited by Alan Harding

London: Royal Historical Society, 1980.

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Law -- History -- Congresses.

Introduction; The texts of Henry II's assizes; The legal position of Wales in the middle ages; The Palatinate Courts in Lancashire; English-trained canonists in the middle ages; The last phase of the medieval chancery; Sinclair's practicks; English law, Scots law and the Union, 1603-1707; Stair's use of Roman law; Law and landscape in early Scotland: a study of the relationship between tenure and landholding; The social structure of the faculty of advocates in Scotland, 1661-1840; James Kent: the American Blackstone; The legal status of English trade unions, 1799-1871; Index.

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