Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century

by James Oldham

Using voluminous trial notes and previously unexplored documentary sources, Oldham (law, Georgetown U. Law Center) provides a reappraisal of the judicial career of Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in England from 1756 to 1799. Called the greatest lawyer of the century by

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807820520
• ISBN13: 9780807820520
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 2 Pages