Legal record and historical reality : proceedings of the eighth British Legal History Conference Cardiff 1987 / edited by Thomas G. Watkin.

London : Hambledon Press, 1989.

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Law -- History -- Congresses.

1. Placita Corone --2. Roman legal categories in the early common law --3. The 'Henry VIII Clause': delegated legislation and the tudor principality of Wales --4. The freedom of the seas: an Asian inspiration for mare liberum? --5. Witchcraft beleifs and criminal procedure in early modern England --6. Witchcraft trials in Virginia in the seventeenth century --7. A social and legal history of gaming: from the restoration to the Gaming Act 1845 --8. Lord Hardwicke's use of precedent in equity --9. The work of Ryder and Murray as law officers of the Crown --10. The great ashdown forest case --11. Some images of man and their relation to the administration of teh criminal law in Britain 1830-1914 --12. Race and law in South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries --13. From individualism to communitarianism? the case of standard forms.

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