Legal history in the making : proceedings of the ninth British Legal History Conference Glasgow 1989 / edited by W.M. Gordon & T.D. Fergus.

London: Hambledon Press, 1991.

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Law -- History -- Congresses.

1. Saints, seaways and dispute settlements; 2. The presentation of cases in medieval chancery bills; 3. The early development of the laws of the Anglo-Scottish marches, 1249-1448; 4. Forethocht felony, malice aforethought and the classification of homicide; 5. The structure of English common law in the seventeenth century; 6. An introduction to iconographical studies of legal history; 7. Disputations of Scots students attending university in the northern Netherlands; 8. James Greenshields and the House of Lords: a reappraisal; 9. Default and modern process; 10. Macaulay's 'utlitarian' Indian penal code: an illustration of the accidental function of time, place and personalities in law making; 11. The development of Danish joint stock company rules during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 12. The influence of Butch Cassidy on the development of English company law; 13. The burdens of empire and the legalization of white supremacy in Canada, 1860-1910; 14. Sir Augustus Stephenson and the Prosecution of Offences Act of 1884; 15. Paul Vinogradoff as legal historian.

216 p.