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Legal Lore

by William Andrews

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Editor
Andrews, William, 1848-1908
Title
Legal Lore: Curiosities of Law and Lawyers
Credits
Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)
Language
English
LoC Class
K: Law in general, Comparative and uniform law, Jurisprudence
Subject
Law -- Miscellanea
Category
Text
eBook-No.
38589
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38589
Release Date
January 16, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Lawyer in History, Literature, and Humour.
  2. 2.Preface.
  3. 3.Contents.
  4. 4.Bible Law.
  5. 5.Sanctuaries.
  6. 6.Trials in Superstitious Ages.
  7. 7.On Symbols.
  8. 8.Law under the Feudal System.
  9. 9.The Manor and Manor Law.
  10. 10.Ancient Tenures.
  11. 11.Laws of the Forest.
  12. 12.Trial by Jury in Old Times.
  13. 13.Barbarous Punishments.
  14. 14.Trials of Animals.
  15. 15.Devices of the Sixteenth Century Debtors.
  16. 16.Laws Relating to the Gipsies.
  17. 17.Commonwealth Law and Lawyers.
  18. 18.Cock-Fighting in Scotland.
  19. 19.Fatal Links.
  20. 20.Post-Mortem Trials.
  21. 21.Island Laws.
  22. 22.The Little Inns of Court.
  23. 23.Obiter.
  24. 24.Index.

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