History and the law / (Record no. 224651)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781108486057
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 349.42
Item number STE.H
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Steedman, Carolyn,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title History and the law /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Carolyn Steedman.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. UK
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 285 pages
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "This book is about people's relationships with, to, and under the law in the past, and modern historians' understanding of the law as experienced by those people. With some zig-zaggery into the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, the eighteenth to the nineteenth century is its time frame. The ziggy shape is history's shape, not history as 'the past', but history as stories that get told about the past. 'The law' here is English law-The Laws of England-with its common law system of precedent as opposed to written code; the common law's regime of adversarial procedure as opposed to the inquisitorial (or 'truth-finding') systems of Continental Europe. It is English law, with its overlapping circles of never-quite binaries: common law/statute law; criminal/ civil law; high law/low law; public law/private law; law/equity ... all of it but the very last 'the common law' in one way or another and designated incomprehensible by many commentators. It is an adversarial legal system of fairly recent origin: now-familiar lawyer-dominated procedures came into being over the century from about 1750.1 This is one of the reasons for some historians (not legal historians) having trouble with this law. Assured by great authorities like Sir William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, that we are looking at an immemorial system, pertaining time out of mind, we have not known until very recently that writing in the 1760s, Blackstone was in fact describing a system in the making"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Law
Geographic subdivision Great Britain
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Law
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Koha item type Book
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        Campus Library Kariavattom Campus Library Kariavattom Processing Center 07/07/2021   349.42 STE.H UCL30200 07/07/2021 07/07/2021 Book