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4 giorni fa · Eleven volumes are due to appear of the Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen (1829–94), lawyer, colonial administrator in India and historian of criminal law, brother to Leslie Stephen and uncle to Virginia Woolf.
30 mag 2024 · 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.
1 giu 2024 · 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 ...
6 giorni fa · 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.
28 mag 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.
30 mag 2024 · Some of the early residents in De Vere Gardens were people of note, and in 1888–9 included Robert Browning at No. 29, Henry James in a ‘chaste and secluded’ flat on the fourth floor of De Vere Mansions West, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen at No. 32, the Marquess of Carmarthen (later tenth Duke of Leeds but then a junior minister ...
30 mag 2024 · In 1894 it was withdrawn from auction at £8,000, atter a major redecoration which rose to silk brocades and old French leather paper; it was then said that Sir James Fitzjames Stephen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.
