A Legal History of the English Landscape
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A Legal History of the English Landscape by Christopher Jessel
Taking a broadly chronological approach, A Legal History of the English Landscape is an engaging account of how the law has played a pivotal role in shaping the English landscape through the concepts of security, inheritance, dispute resolution and transfer of land. There are descriptions of several legal cases illustrating the way the law worked, from a lawsuit between two Roman citizens about a wood to leading cases of the nineteenth century. As conditions changed, once-important laws became obsolete and the author shows how later generations were able to adapt or circumvent them for their own needs. A Legal History of the English Landscape aims to set land law in a wider context of changes in society and of ideas such as what it means to describe someone as owner of land and how it comes about that Parliament has the power to rearrange the landscape. "The book has pride of place in our bookcase" Phillip Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers
"The book has pride of place in our bookcase" Phillip Taylor, Richmond Green Chambers
Christopher Jessel joined Farrer & Co solicitors in 1967 and remained there subsequently as partner practising in rural and constitutional law until retirement in 2008. He is the author of Farms and Estates: A Conveyancing Guide, Development Land: Overage and Clawback and The Law of the Manor.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780854900879 |
| ISBN 10 | 085490087X |
| Title | A Legal History of the English Landscape |
| Author | Christopher Jessel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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