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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Law courts"”.
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Perjury and Memory in the English Law Courts, 1660–1688
… and witness perjury, or lying under oath, in the law courts of later seventeenth-century England. Although there has been excellent work on perjury in early modern England, this work is limited for the later seventeenth century, and does not interrogate questions of memory. Memory is a fertile but …
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Making place for petty crimes : an exploration into the use of boundaries as a vehicle for generating an appropriate response to the complexities of urban courts
… the journey. What is the role of boundaries in law architecture and at what point does it invite or exclude the public on the journey. To address the question, the terms 'superiority' and 'exclusivity' in law buildings will be explored through investigating the appearance of traditional law …
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Women of St. Marks, Transkei : negotiating customary law, c.1940 - c.1960
This thesis explores the ways in which customary law affected the women of the St. Marks district, Transkei between 1940 and 1960. In particular, it examines how women worked within and through customary law and the customary law courts in order to obtain redress for their problems. The thesis …
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The problematic nature of unregistered trademarks: an insight of Zambian law with comparative lessons from the South African jurisdiction
… trademarks are an important aspect of trademark law. Historically, the origins and use of trademarks dates to medieval times and the early developments are particularly obscure. Some legal scholars have however argued that it seems the Courts first began to protect ‘marks at the behest of traders …
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Women Under Colonial Coverture: Divorce, Property Rights, and Inheritance in Early Massachusetts
… women’s property and divorce rights in the courts of law in the colonial Massachusetts legal system. It uses primary documents, such as official court records and Puritan sermons, to examine women’s legal rights in that colony through the intersecting lenses of church and state. This thesis …
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Legal change in an interest-group perspective: the demise of special corporate charters
… via legislative act to general incorporation laws which make corporate privileges available to all who meet certain, minimal procedural requirements. Prior to the mid-1800's, corporate privileges were allocated by special legislative act in a market for corporate privileges. In this market, …
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Promises broken: Breach of promise of marriage in England and Wales, 1753-1970
… marriage suits originated in the ecclesiastical courts; the Hardwicke Marriage Act, however, invalidated betrothals and forced jilted lovers to use the common law courts for redress. This study is based on 875 breach of promise cases in England and Wales between 1750 and 1970, most of which …
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Eloquent Wisdom: The Role of Rhetoric and Delight in the Theology of Saint Augustine of Hippo
… role is not to sway the senate or deliberate in law courts (as in Cicero’s thought) but to inform and persuade people towards a fruitful return to the divine. In the second part of the dissertation, I demonstrate how this approach influenced Augustine’s understanding of redemption. He conceives …
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Arbitration in English law and society before the Act of 1698
… during this period, previous historians of law and social relations have focused their interests elsewhere. For this reason, little has been done to account for the passing of the Arbitration Act of 1698, the first statute on arbitration to be enacted in England. The statute authorised the …
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The nature and significance of bride wealth among the South African Bantu
… but particularly in the native Church and in the law courts, there is marked perplexity - and inconsistency - in dealing with the custom, all tending to increase the confusion and maladjustment of our native peoples - especially among native Christians. It is submitted, therefore, that the time is …
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Enhancing access to justice in Zimbabwe: an empirical exploration of integrating socially appropriate dispute resolution to overcome barriers within the formal justice system
Colonialism introduced common law in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The colonial regime subsequently relegated indigenous laws, rules, and epistemologies to the status of informality, except for those that did not offend European notions of justice and morality. Despite colonial onslaughter, relegated …
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Justice in the Court of Requests, 1483-1538
… some legal, social, or economic barrier at the courts of English common law. The thesis charts Requests’ history and socio-political function from its first appearance in the historical record in 1483 to its more formal settlement in 1538. The thesis is split into three parts, analysing Requests …
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Piers Plowman, Legal Authority and the Law of Subject Status.
… Piers Plowman to show that the language of the law courts, and the dilemmas faced there on a daily basis about the authority of the law, are mirrored in the way in which Langland presents Christ's harrowing of hell at one of the narrative climaxes of the poem. The state of English law inflects …
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A regional study of American genre painting from 1830-1880
… horse markets, cobblers' shops and satirized the law courts and clergy. The final chapter of the dissertation discusses a select group of artist-explorers who observed the American Indian in his own environment. These brave men who sometimes ventured alone or accompanied government troops or fur …
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"Ungadinwa Nangomso - don't get tired tomorrow" : a history of the Black Sash advice office in Cape Town 1968 to 1980
… in Cape Town and supported the anti-pass law campaigns Tram 1957 to 1960. The new dynamic thus engendered led to the opening of the Athlone Advice office, where Black Sash volunteers assisted Africans with the many problems and difficulties encountered by the implementation of apartheid …
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The Development of the Justice in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the Middle Kingdom
… to have seen a greater emphasis on recorded law. On the other hand, the close connection between justice and specific places of dispensing it, such as the Hw.t-wr.t (‘great enclosure’) and the wsx.t (‘broad court’) weakened substantially in the Middle Kingdom when compared to the preceding …
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Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study on State-Sponsored Immigration Policy
… SB 1070. Since it has been two years after the law was passed, this analysis determines what impact the law has had thus far within the state. Finally, it postulates the future of Arizona’s immigration policy.</p>
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A Philosophical Defense of Judicial Minimalism
… minimalism, apply that definition to case law and the literature, refute many objections to judicial minimalism including objections based on tough case counterexamples, offer a new version of the argument of epistemic humility and offer a new argument in support of judicial minimalism from …
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Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy
… and Vines: 1967) complained that federal courts have seldom been investigated as a system of interactions," the same problem continues to plague judicial scholarship, particularly concerning federal district courts. Viewed as the sum of its three essays, this dissertation project seeks to …