TY  - BOOK
AB  - "In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years. His legal decisions launched England on the path to abolishing slavery and the slave trade, modernized commercial law in ways that helped establish Britain as the world's leading industrial and trading nation, and his vigorous opposition to the American colonists stoked Revolutionary fires." -- Publisher's description.
AU  - Poser, Norman S.,
CN  - KD621.M3
CN  - KD621.M3
ID  - 693676
KW  - Law
KW  - Judges
N2  - "In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years. His legal decisions launched England on the path to abolishing slavery and the slave trade, modernized commercial law in ways that helped establish Britain as the world's leading industrial and trading nation, and his vigorous opposition to the American colonists stoked Revolutionary fires." -- Publisher's description.
SN  - 9780773541832
SN  - 0773541837
T1  - Lord Mansfield :justice in the age of reason /
TI  - Lord Mansfield :justice in the age of reason /
ER  -