Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment

Lord Atkin. Geoffrey Lewis. London. 1983. Butterworths. xi + 248 pp. (incl. index). £14.95.

Law and Social Change in British History: Papers presented to the British Legal History Conference, 14–17 July 1981. Ed. J.A. Guy and H.G. Beale. London. 1984. Royal Historical Society. xiii + 194 pp. (incl. Index). £20.80.

Gentlemen and Poachers: The English Game Laws 1671–1831. P.B. Munsche, Cambridge. 1981. Cambridge University Press. x &; 255 pp. £18.50.     

Book reviews,etc.

Welfare Law and Order. By P. Alcock and P. Harris. [Macmillan Press. 1982. xvi and 219 pp. (inc. index). £5.95.]

Law of Child Care. By B. I. Slomnicka. [Macdonald & Evans. 405 pp. (inc. index). £9.95.]

Swift v. Greenshire County Council, Q.B.D. [Audio‐Visual Department, London University. 40 minutes. Sales prices: (VHS or Sony U‐Matic video cassette + 10 copies of the accompanying documents). Educational institutions in the U.K.: £95 + postage and V.A.T. Government bodies: £150 + postage and V.A.T. Others: £250 + postage and V.A.T. Additional copies of the documents: £2.50 each.

The Sunday Times Case

[Audio‐Visual Centre, University of Warwick. 1981. 16mm colour film. 30 minutes £260 or (hire) £20 for one day + £5 for each day thereafter; video version: £60 + cost of cassette.]

Criminal Procedure. Third edition. By Celia Hampton. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1982. lxi and 472 pp. (inc. index). £16.50 (hardback); £8.95 (paperback).]

The Police in Society. By Ben Whitaker. [Sinclair Browne. 1982. 331 pp. (inc. index). £4.95 (paperback).]

Hanbury and Maudsley's Modern Equity. Eleventh edition. By R. H. Maudsley and Jill E. Martin. [Stevens. 1981. cvi and 796 pp. (inc. index). £27.50 (cloth); £16.50 (paperback).]

Company Law. By Kenneth Smith & D. J. Keenan. Fourth edition. [Pitman, x and 506 pp. (inc. index). £7.50.]

Company Law. By M. C. Oliver. Eighth edition. [Macdonald & Evans. xxx and 386 pp. (inc. index). £3.95.]

Cases in Company Law. Third edition. By M. C. Oliver. I Macdonald & Evans. xv and 396 pp. (inc. index). £4.95.]

Rent Acts and Regulations Amended and Annotated. By J. T. Farrand and A. Arden. Second edition. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1981. xl and 435 pp. (inc. index). £16.50.]

‘O’ Level English Law. By D. M: M. Scott. Fourth edition. [Butterworths. 1981. xvi and 269 pp. (inc. index). £4.95 (paperback).]

‘O’ Level Law. By W. J. Brown. Second edition. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1982. xiv and 227 pp. (inc. index). £4.75 (paperback).]

Danish Law. A General Survey. Edited by Gammeltoft Hansen, Bernhard Gomard and Allan Philip. [G.E.C. Gads, Copenhagen. 395 pp., no index.]     

Reviews

A Treatise for our times?: The Law of Torts. 6th edition. By John G. Fleming. [The Law Book Co. Ltd. 1983. £20·00, soft covers.] A Treatise for our times?: The Law of Torts. 7th edition. By H. Street. [Butterworths 1983. £15·95, soft covers.] A Treatise for our times?: States of Emergency. By Keith Jeffrey and Peter Hennessy. [Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1983. viii and 312 pp. £14·95.] A Treatise for our times?: Law, Social Science and Criminal Theory. By Jerome Hall. [Colorado: Fred B. Rothman & Co., New York University School of Law, Criminal Law Education Research Center, Publications Series, Vol. 14. 1982. xvi+333 pp. $39.50.] A Treatise for our times?: Between Conviction and Sentence: The process of mitigation. By Joanna Shapland. [London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1981. 167 pp. £10·50.] A Treatise for our times?: Public Rights and Private Interests. By J. A. G. Griffith. [Trivandrum. The Academy of Legal Publications. 1981. 195 pp. Rs. 80; £7·00.]     

Book Reviews

The Vital Probe . By I.S. Cooper, M.D. (W.W. Norton & Co., New York) (1981) 346 pp.
Medical Ethics and the Low_: Impactions for Public Policy. Edited by Marc D. Hiller, Dr. P.H. (Ballinger Publishing Co., Cambridge, Mass.) (1981)471 pp.
Forensic Radiology . By K.T. Evans and B. Knight (Blackwell Publishers, London, distributed by C.V. Mosby, St. Louis) (1981) 212 pp.     

Scottish Legal History Group Report 2012

The Enigma of Felix Frankfurter. H. N. Hirsch New York, 1981. Basic Books Inc. x + 253pp (incl. index). £11.25.

Jogtörteneti Tanulmanyok (Studies in Legal History) Edited by A. Adam. F. Benedek and J. Szita. Legal Studies of Pecs University no. 95. Pecs. 1980. 432 pp.     

Book notes

Louise I. Shelley, Crime and Modernization: The Impact of Industrialization and Urbanization on Crime. Carbon‐dale, Ill.: Southern Illinois Press, 1981, 224 pp.

Rosemary and Gary Brana‐Shute, eds., Crime and Punishment in the Caribbean. Gainesville, Fla.: The Center for Latin American Studies, 1980, 146 pp.     

Book review: Criminal justice history and co‐corrections

Lawrence M. Friedman and Robert V. Percival, The Roots of Justice: Crime and Punishment in Alameda County, California, 1870–1910 Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981, 335 pp.

Charles Campbell, Serving Time Together: Men and Women in Prison Fort Worth, Texas Christian University Press, 1980, 237 pp.     

Review essay / juvenile justice

Peter S. Prescott, The Child Savers New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981, 244 pp.     

Reviews

Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Marriage Contract. By Lenore J. Weitzman. [New York: The Free Press. 1981. 536 pp. (incl. index) $17.95.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Cohabitation Without Marriage. By Michael D. A. Freeman and Christina M. Lyon. [Aldershot, Hants.: Gower, 1983. 228 pp. (incl. index). £15.00.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Unmarried Couples. By Winifred H. Holland. [Toronto: The Carswell Company. 1982. 249 pp. (incl. index) Can.$32.50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Family Home. By W. T. Murphy and Hilary Clark. [London: Sweet and Maxwell. 1983. xxi and 229 pp. (incl. index) £6£95 (paperback).] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Fundamentals of Securities Regulation. By Louis Loss. [Boston and Toronto: Little Brown and Company. 1983. xxiii and 1353 pp. No price stated.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Economic Realities and the Female Offender. By Jane Roberts Chapman. [Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books. 1980. 234 pp. (incl. bibliog. and index). No price stated.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Girl Delinquents. By Anne Campbell. [Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1981. 266 pp. Paperback: £4-50.1 Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Analysis of Judicial Reform. Edited by Philip L. Dubois. [Lexington: D. C. Heath. 1982. xiv and 221 pp. £18·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: The Politics of Judicial Reform. Edited by Philip L. Dubois. [Lexington: D. C. Heath. 1982. xi and 187 pp. £18·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Prosecution in the Public Interest. By Susan R. Moody and Jacqueline Tombs. [Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press. 1982. xiii and 167 pp. £12·00.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: Free Speech: A Philosophical Inquiry. By Frederick Schauer. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. 237 pp. £ 20·00 (hardback) £6-50 (paperback).] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: English Law and French Law. By René David. [Stevens/Eastern Law House. 1980. 195 pp. Hardback: £12·50.] Legal Marriage—who Needs it?: La Responsabilité Civile. By André Tunc. [Economica. 1981. 161 pp. Paperback: 65F.]     

In other journals

Historical Foundations of the Common Law, Second Edition. S.F.C. Milson . London 1981. Butterworths. pp xii &; 475 (incl. Index). £18 cased, £11.95 limp.?

Marriage Settlements 1601–1740. Lloyd Bonfield. Cambridge 1983. Cambridge University Press, xviii &; 136 pp. (incl. index). £19.50.

The English and Colonial Bars in the 19th Century, Daniel Duman, London, 1983. Croom Helm, xv + 228 pp. (incl. index). £13.95.     

Principled compromise: The New York state organized crime control act

Digby Anderson, ed., Criminal Welfare on Trial London: The Social Affairs Unit, 1981, 95 pp.     

REVIEWS

Critical Legal Studies: The Politics of Law. Edited by David Kairys. [New York: Pantheon Books. 1982. x and 321 pp. Paperback $9·95.] Critical Legal Studies: Law, State and Society. Edited by Bob Fryer, Alan Hunt, Doreen McBarnet and Bert Moorhouse. [London: Croom Helm. 1981. 234 pp. (including name index). Hardback £14·95.] Critical Legal Studies: A Bibliography Critical Legal Studies: The Law Lords. By Alan Paterson. [London: Macmillan. 1982. 287pp. £12.] Critical Legal Studies: The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kebell, A Case Study. By E. W. Ives. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History). 1983. 536 pp. £40.] Critical Legal Studies: People Against the Press. An Enquiry into the Press Council. By Geoffrey Robertson. [London: Quartet. 1983. 182 pp. (including appendices and index). £7£95.]     

The scope and teaching of welfare law: Report of a symposium*

British Nationality Law and The 1981 Act. By Laurie Fransman. [Fourmat Publishing. xiv and 129 pp. (inc. index). £6.25]

Tort: Cases and Materials. Second Edition. By B. A. Hepple and M. H. Matthews. [Butterworths. 1980. xlii and 757 pp. (inc. index). £14.95].

Mercantile Law. By Kenneth Smith and Denis Keenan. Fifth Edition. [Pitman 1982. xiii and 753 pp. (inc. index). £8.95 (paperback)].

The Politics of the Judiciary. Second Edition. By J. A. G. Griffith. [Fontana. 255 pp.(inc. index). £2.50].

Introduction to Law in the Republic of Ireland. By Richard H. Grimes and Patrick T. Horgan. [Wolfhound Press. 368 pp. (inc. index). £10.75].

Family Law in the Republic of Ireland. By Alan Joseph Shatter. Second Edition. [Wolfhound Press. 1981. Distributed outside Ireland by Sweet and Maxwell. xl and 408 pp. (inc. index). £18 (paperback)].     

Reviews

H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy. By H.L.A. Hart [Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1983. viii and 396 pp. £17.50 cloth, £7.50 Paper.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: H.L.A. Hart. By Neil MacCormick. [London: Edward Arnold. 1981. 184pp. £9.95 cloth, £4.95 Paper.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Policy Arguments in Judicial Decisions. By John Bell. [Oxford: Oxford University Press 1983. xv and 283 pp. £20·00.] H.L.A. Hart: Jurisprudence and Linguistic Philosophy: Justice Without Law? By Jerold S. Auerbach. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1983. XV and 182 pp. (including notes and index). Hardback £14·00.]     

Reviews

General Problems of Private International Law. By O. Kahn-Freund. [Leyden: Sijthoff. 1976. 336 pp. Dfl.48·00.] Law in Modern Society. By Roberto Mangabeira Unger. [New York: The Free Press. 1976. ix + 309 pp. $12.95.] Power Law and Society. By Edgar Bodenheimer. [New York: Crane Russak. 1976. vii + 202 pp. No price given.] Fiduciary Obligations. By P. D. Finn. [Sydney: Law Book Co. Ltd. 1977. xxxvii and 299 pp. No price stated.] Computer Law. By Colin Tapper. [Longman Group Limited, London. 1978. 180 pp. + introduction, tables, bibliography and indexes. £6·95.] Alibi. By R. N. Gooderson. [London: Heinemann. 1977. 269 pp. £9·50.] Social Welfare Law. Edited by D. W. Pollard. [Oyez Publishing. 1977. £50 + £1 (postage and packing).] Council Housing. By David Hoath. [Sweet & Maxwell. 1978. (Modern Legal Studies) pp. xix + 169. Hardback: £4·00; Paperback: £2·50.] Fair Rent and Legal Fiction. By Piers Bierne. [Macmillan. 1977. Hardback: £8·95; Paperback: £3·95. pp. xix + 240.] The Homeless and the Empty Houses. By Ron Bailey. Penguin Books. 1977. pp. 287 95p.] Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences. Ninth Edition. Edited by Patrick Halnan. [Oyez, London, 1977. pp. cvii 931 incl. index. £18·00.] La Contrattazione Collettiva in Italia (1945–1977). Edited by B. Veneziani. [Bari: Cacucci Editore 1978. Lire 6.500. 341 pp.]     

Commentaries on the issue

Lynne Rudder Baker, Saving Belief: A Critique of Physicalism Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987, xii + 177 pp.

Daniel C. Dennett, The Intentional Stance Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987, xi + 388 pp.

Paul M. Churchland, Matter and Consciousness Cambridge: MIT Press, revised edition, 1988, xii + 184 pp.     

The hidden origins of enorm lesion

Plato's Penal Code: Tradition, Controversy and Reform in Greek Penology. Trevor J. Saunders. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1991. xvii + 414pp. (incl. Indexes). £50 hb. ISBN 0 19 814893 3.

Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the time of Cicero to the time of Ulpian. Susan Treggiari. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1991. xv + 578pp. (incl. Indexes). £65 hb. ISBN 0 19 814890 9.

Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome. Edited by Beryl Rawson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xiv + 252pp. (incl. Index). £35 hb. ISBN 0 19 814918 2.

Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. J.A. Brundage. University of Chicago Press, 1987. xxiv + 674pp. (incl. Index). £21.50 pb. ISBN 0 226 07784 5.

Church Courts, Sex and Marriage, in England, 1570–1640. M. Ingram. Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, 1987. xiii + 412pp. (incl. Index). £45 hb. ISBN 0 521 386551.

The Medieval Canon Law. Teaching, Literature and Transmission. (The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography: 1987–1988). Dorothy M. Owen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xii + 82pp. £25 hb. ISBN 0 521 39313 9.

Notaries Public in England since the Reformation. C.W. Brooks, R.H. Helmholz and P.G. Stein. Norwich: The Erskine Press for the Society of Public Notaries of London, 1991. ix + 148pp. (incl. Index). £60.00 hb. £29.95 pb. ISBN 1 85297 0340.

The Common Law and English Jurisprudence 1760–1850. Michael Lobban. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. xvi + 315pp. (incl. Index). £35.00 hb. ISBN 019 825293 5.

Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, c. 1660–1725. Robert B. Shoemaker. Cambridge: The University Press, 1991. xxviii + 352pp. (incl. Index). £40/$64.50 hb. ISBN 0 521 40082 1.

The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, Peter Linebaugh. London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1991. xxvii + 484pp. (incl. Index). £25 hb. ISBN 0 713 99045 7.

American Jurisprudence 1870–1970: A History. James Herget. Houston, Texas: Rice University Press, 1990. x + 367pp. (incl. Index.) $35.00hb. ISBN 0 89256 305 0.

Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jarhunderten. G. Kleinheyer and J. Schröder. Heidelberg: C.F. Muller, 1989. 415pp. (incl. Index.) DM 34.80 pb.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 1. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxi + 648 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 498.

Quellen zur Reform des Straf‐ und Strafprozessrechts, III Abteilung, NS‐Zeit (1933–1939), Band 2, 1 Teil. Edited by J. Regge and W. Schubert et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991. xxxi + 772 pp. (incl. Index.) DM 598.     

REVIEWS

Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: Trust and Power. By Niklas Luhmann, translated by H. Davis, J. Raffan and K. Rooney, edited by T. Burns and G. Poggi, with an introduction by G. Poggi. [Chichester: John Wiley. 1979. xix and 208pp., £16·55, hardback.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: The Differentiation of Society. By Niklas Luhmann, translated and introduced by S. Holmes and C. Larmore. [New York: Columbia University Press. 1982. xxxvii and 482pp., $35.00.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: The Reform of Civil Procedural Law and Other Essays in Civil Procedure. By Sir Jack I. H. Jacob, Q.C. [London: Sweet and Maxwell. 1982. 359 pp. £18·50.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: Law and Order: Arguments for Socialism. By Ian Taylor. [London: Macmillan. 1981. 234 pp. Hardcover: £15·00. Softcover: £4·95.] Modern Times Niklas Luhmann on Law, Politics and Social Theory: The Ordering of Justice: A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process. By Richard V. Ericson and Patricia M. Baranek. [Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1982. xvi and 268 pp. (incl. index). No price stated.]