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Titles in the Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History Series

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Lords of the Land: Indigenous Property Rights and the Jurisprudence of Empire
 

Lords of the Land: Indigenous Property Rights and the Jurisprudence of Empire (Hardback)

By Hickford, Mark

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Through focusing on the political history of New Zealand during its imperial settlement, this book offers a fresh assessment of the history of indigenous property rights. It shows how native title became a constitutional frame within which political authority was formed and cont ...

ISBN 9780199568659
Published 22 December 2011 by Oxford University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
Series Oxford Studies in Modern Legal History
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A History of Water Rights at Common Law

A History of Water Rights at Common Law (Paperback, New edition)

By Getzler, Joshua

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Describes how the courts created rights for land owners and users competing to appropriate water for factories, town supply, drainage, and transport. This work covers the period from early times to the late nineteenth century, illustrating the changing common law of property and ...

ISBN 9780199207602
Published 22 June 2006 by Oxford University Press
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Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition

Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition (Hardback)

By Duxbury, Neil

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Provides a historical account of one of England's jurists, drawing upon several sources, and examines Pollock's career, jurisprudence, philosophy of the common law, treatise writing, and editorial initiatives. This book shows that Pollock's contribution to the development of Engl ...

ISBN 9780199270224
Published 30 September 2004 by Oxford University Press
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Bills of Rights and Decolonization: The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Instruments in Britain's Overseas Territories

Bills of Rights and Decolonization: The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Instruments in Britain's Overseas Territories (Hardback)

By Parkinson, Charles

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Bills of Rights and Decolonization analyzes the British Government's radical change in policy during the late 1950s on the use of bills of rights in colonial territories nearing independence. More broadly it explores the political dimensions of securing the protection of human ri ...

ISBN 9780199231935
Published 22 November 2007 by Oxford University Press
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A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law

A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law (Paperback)

By Kostal, Rande W.

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This book looks at the martial law suppression of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the subsequent debate and litigation. It addresses questions of legality, and the integrity of political ideals arising from the most important conflict over martial law and the rule of law in the ...

ISBN 9780199551941
Published 28 August 2008 by Oxford University Press
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