In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years. His legal decisions launched England on the path to abolishing slav..

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Belles résidences, domestiques, voyages… la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ménagères de milieu populaire. Ces femmes n'étaient pas totalement à l'abri, néanmoins. Dans Genre, patrimoine et droit civil, Thierry Nootens ex..

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The duel, and the codes of honour that governed duelling, functioned for decades in many European and Latin American countries as a shadow legal system, regulating in practice what legislators felt free to say and what journalists felt free to write. Yet the duel was also an act of potentially ..

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From the early sixteenth century, thousands of fishermen-traders from Basque, Breton, and Norman ports crossed the Atlantic each year to engage in fishing, whaling, and fur trading, which they regarded as their customary right. In the seventeenth century these rights were challenged as France s..

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Explaining the curious legal doctrine of "coverture," William Blackstone famously declared that "by marriage, husband and wife are one person at law." This "covering" of a wife's legal identity by her husband meant that the greatest subordination of women to men developed within marriage. In En..

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In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement won many supporters with its promise that social ills such as venereal disease, alcoholism, and so-called feeble-mindedness, along with many other conditions, could be eliminated by selective human breeding and other measures. The provinces ..

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The eighteenth-century Peace and Friendship Treaties between the Wabanaki Confederacy and the British Crown were nation-to-nation agreements grounded in respect, reciprocity, peace, and friendship – not subjugation. Yet the British violated their treaty commitments, as they did others across Tu..

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In January 1941 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police learned of nine deaths in the Belcher Islands, an archipelago in southeast Hudson Bay. The fatalities reportedly occurred during an episode of intense religious fervour among the nomadic Inuit. While the RCMP ultimately charged seven Inuit with ..

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In January 1941 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police learned of nine deaths in the Belcher Islands, an archipelago in southeast Hudson Bay. The fatalities reportedly occurred during an episode of intense religious fervour among the nomadic Inuit. While the RCMP ultimately charged seven Inuit with ..

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This book investigates how the law has framed the most complex problems of uncertainty, when its rules for establishing facts cannot produce a satisfactory answer; dealt with uncertainty’s often unclear boundaries; and developed a broad range of responses to solve or avoid it, exploring these i..

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