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050		4	_aKD392 -- .L39 2012eb
082	0		_a340.072
100	1		_aFernandez, Angela.
245	1	0	_aLaw Books in Action : _bEssays on the Anglo-American Legal Treatise.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLondon : _bBloomsbury Publishing Plc, _c2012.
264		4	_c©2012.
300			_a1 online resource (262 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aPrelims -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Putting the Legal Treatise in Its Place -- 1. Historicising Blackstone's Commentaries on The Laws of England -- 2. 'Of Institutes and Treatises': Blackstone's Commentaries, Kent's Commentaries and Murdoch's Epitome of the Laws of Nova-Scotia -- 3. Tapping Reeve, Coverture and America's First Legal Treatise -- 4. Story'd Paradigms for the Nineteenth-Century Display of Anglo-American Legal Doctrine -- 5. A Province of Jurisprudence?: Invention of a Law of Constitutional Conventions -- 6. Nineteenth-Century Treatises on English Contract Law -- 7. Of Treatises and Textbooks: the Literature of the Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 8. Truth and Privilege: Libel Treatises and the Transmission of Legal Norms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World -- 9. Renovate or Rebuild? Treatises, Digests and Criminal Law Codification -- 10. A Low Law Counter Treatise? 'Absentees' to 'Wreck' in British North America's First Justice of the Peace Manual -- 11. Commentary: Effects of Scale: Toward a History of the Literature of Law -- Index.
520			_aThe essays in this collection explore the history of the legal treatise in the common law world, and ask what treatises can tell us about what troubled legal professionals at a given time, what motivated them to write what they did, and what they hoped to achieve.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aPractice of law -- Great Britain -- History.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
700	1		_aDubber, Markus.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aFernandez, Angela _tLaw Books in Action _dLondon : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2012 _z9781849461412
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1772961 _zClick to View
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