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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 October 2009
      10 January 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511522697
      9780521890915
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522697
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 328 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law, British History after 1450, History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
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    Subjects:
    Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
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    This study presents a full account of Sheppard's employment under Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate as well as an examination of his family background and education, his religious commitment to John Owen's party of Independents and his legal philosophy. An appraisal of all Sheppard's legal works, including those written during the Civil War and the Restoration period, illustrates the overlapping concerns with law reform, religion and politics in his generation. Sheppard had impressively consistent goals for the reform of English law and his prescient proposals anticipate the reforms ultimately adopted in the nineteenth century, culminating in the Judicature Acts of 1875–8. Dr Matthews examines the relative importance of Sheppard's books to his generation and to legal literature in general. The study provides a full bibliography of Sheppard's legal and religious works and an appendix of the sources Sheppard used in the composition of his books on the law.

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