Stephen Michael Waddams
Auteur de The law of contracts
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Œuvres de Stephen Michael Waddams
Sexual slander in nineteenth-century England : defamation in the ecclesiastical courts, 1815-1855 (2000) 9 exemplaires
Milner's Cases and Materials on Contracts 1 exemplaire
Law of Contracts, 5th ed. 1 exemplaire
Law of Damages, 2nd ed. 1 exemplaire
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- Nom canonique
- Waddams, Stephen Michael
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- English by birth
Naturalized Canadian
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Critiques
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- Œuvres
- 16
- Membres
- 119
- Popularité
- #166,388
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 44
Lushington's career spans cause célebre trials such as the trial in Parliament of George IV's wife ("Most Gracious Queen, we thee implore/To go away and sin no more/Or if that effort be too great/To go away at any rate") and the earlier Ritualism trials. Aside from the coverage given by Dickens to the Court of Arches in David Copperfield it is seriously neglected, partly because most historians and modern lawyers are ill-equipped to deal with this last of the civilian courts in England. Waddams' book is a welcome treatment of its latter days.
I should note that my sense of the book is coloured by having discussed the topic with the author while it was being written.… (plus d'informations)