The ‘illegal sentences which magistrates were daily passing’: The Backstory to Governor Richard Bourke's 1832 Punishment and Summary Jurisdiction Act in Convict New South Wales.
Recent literature has recast the history of the British empire as a vast project of intervention in and reordering of colonial legal administrations. Closer inspection of local moments of legal reform, however, reveals substantial complications and contradictions in that project. This article re-con...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Legal History Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 231 - 254 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2017
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