xviii, 331 pages, 1 plate : color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBNs
9781851829361, 1851829369
OCLC
ocm59356230
'The Sixteenth British Legal History Conference (designated a British and Irish Legal History Conference) was held [at] ... University College Dublin from 2 to 5 July 2003, ....' - Preface.
Includes bibliographical references.
Isolt's trial and ordeal : a legal-historical analysis / Roger D. Groot -- Borrowings in the Welsh lawbooks / Dafydd Jenkins -- The use and adaptation of the action of replevin in Ireland during the reign of Edward I / Paul Brand -- The Danes and the marriage break-up of Philip II of France / Frederik Pedersen -- Birlaw courts and birleymen / W.D.H Sellar -- The role of exceptions in Continental civil procedure / C.H. van Rhee -- Sir William Petty and the Court of Admiralty in Restoration Ireland / Kevin Costello -- The value of judicial independence : evidence from eighteenth-century England / Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney -- The rule of law in the settler-colonial encounter : the case of Western Australia / Jule Evans -- Indigenous customary rights and the common law in Aotearoa New Zealand / David V. Williams -- Colourful adventures of the law : legal regulation of colour as sign from heraldry to trade mark law / N.M. Dawson -- Charles Hunt's haircut : getting down to the roots of a legal adventure / Richard W. Ireland -- The influence of Sir Walter Crofton's 'Irish system' on prison reform in Germany / Thomas Krause -- Law in early Iowa : one adventure / Russell K. Osgood -- The firm as an entity before the Companies Acts / Joshua Getzler and Mike Macnair -- Adventures in training : the Irish genesis of the 'remarkable and far-sighted' Select Committee on Legal Education, 1846 / Colum Kenny -- Politics, law and work in modern Britain : the 1965 Redundancy Payments Act / Richard Whitting -- An adventure of the law : the Spanish Champagne case / Peter Spiller