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Hace 6 días · Nash also focuses on James Fitzjames Stephen's telling critique of Coleridge's apparent 'liberalisation' of the law regarding blasphemy and notes his call for the removal of the law rather than its modification in the way proposed by Coleridge - not least because of the power given to public opinion under Coleridge's interpretation.
Hace 3 días · Stephen's son, Sir James Stephen (d. 1859), Under-Secretary for the Colonies, was succeeded by his widow Jane (d. 1875). His sons James Fitzjames Stephen, the Indian judge and controversialist, and Leslie Stephen the essayist, first editor of the D.N.B., were styled lords down to 1886.
Hace 4 días · Mute of Malice and by Visitation of God. The early medieval English trial was thus, in this respect at least, consensual. 21 The “speech act” 34 of stating that one wished to be tried by God and one’s country came to assume what the nineteenth century judge and law reformer James Fitzjames Stephen described as “sacramental importance.” 16 By the 1300s, if defendants did not offer ...
Hace 5 días · Sir James Fitzjames Stephen: The Indian Evidence Act was primarily drafted by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, a member of the British Parliament and a prominent legal reformer. He drew inspiration from English common law principles and sought to create a clear and systematic code. 2.
28 de may. de 2024 · Largely the work of the celebrated legal author and judge James Fitzjames Stephen, this code received widespread publicity throughout England and its colonial possessions. Although it was not adopted in England, it was subsequently enacted in Canada (1892) and in several Australian states and British colonies.
Hace 6 días · In 1894 it was withdrawn from auction at £8,000, atter a major redecoration which rose to silk brocades and old French leather paper; it was then said that Sir James Fitzjames Stephen had offered £15,500 for it five years before. The original prices are unknown.
22 de may. de 2024 · James Fitzjames Stephen, the author, was greatly influenced by the writings of John Austin and Jeremy Bentham. As a practising lawyer and judge, it is the insights gained from his own experience that give an added practical dimension to this work.
