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"It is an important contribution to the history of legal theory in the common law world....Lobban's thesis is complex and highly original; he is persuasive in arguing for a wholesale revision in historical understanding of nineteenth-century legal evolution."--Journal of British Studies
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Questioning accepted views of common law, this book attempts to clarify the nature of common-law practice and the way in which it was envisaged by its practitioners. It asserts that attempts--notably those by Blackstone and Bentham--to expound or criticize common law in essentially theoretical terms were mistaken, and examines the evolution and spread of judicial ideas which were grounded upon the work of moral and political philosophers. Covering important philosophical and political debates of the time and the development of legal theory over a period of 70 years, The Common Law and English Jurisprudence makes a valuable corrective contribution to our understanding of this critical period in English legal history.
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"It is an important contribution to the history of legal theory in the common law world....Lobban's thesis is complex and highly original; he is persuasive in arguing for a wholesale revision in historical understanding of nineteenth-century legal evolution."--Journal of British Studies
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Questioning accepted views of common law, this book attempts to clarify the nature of common-law practice and the way in which it was envisaged by its practitioners. It asserts that attempts--notably those by Blackstone and Bentham--to expound or criticize common law in essentially theoretical terms were mistaken, and examines the evolution and spread of judicial ideas which were grounded upon the work of moral and political philosophers. Covering important philosophical and political debates of the time and the development of legal theory over a period of 70 years, The Common Law and English Jurisprudence makes a valuable corrective contribution to our understanding of this critical period in English legal history.
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- Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain 1780-1850 (Past and Present Publications) by Arthur Burns in Front Matter, and page 118
- Defining A British State: Treason and National Identity, 1608-1820 (Studies in Modern History) by Lisa Steffen in Back Matter
- The Character of Credit (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories) by Margot C. Finn in Back Matter
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