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The Province of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Ideas in Context)

By David Lieberman

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
9780511558528, 0521528542, 9780521245920, 0521245923, 051155852X, 9780521528542
LCC
KD612 .L54 1989
Open Library ID
OL2049881M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2166457 bytes)
Pages
326\326
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

A comprehensive account of English legal thought in the age of Blackstone and Bentham for nearly a century, The Province of Legislation Determined advances an ambitious reinterpretation of eighteenth-century attitudes to social change and law reform. Professor Lieberman's bold synthesis rests on a wide survey of legal materials and on a detailed discussion of Blackstone's Commentaries, the jurisprudence of Lord Kames and the Scottish Enlightenment, the chief justiceship of Lord Mansfield, the penal theories of Eden and Romilly, and the legislative science of Jeremy Bentham. The study relates legal developments to the broader fabric of eighteenth-century social and political theory, and offers a novel assessment of the character of the common law tradition and of Bentham's contribution to the ideology of reform.

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