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ENGLISHMAN'S RIGHT; A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A BARRISTER AT LAW AND A JURYMAN; SHEWING, I. THE ANTIQUITY, II. THE EXCELLENT DESIGNED USE, III. THE OFFICE...

Hawles, Sir John


Item #: 63642

Pages: 70 pp.
Published: OE; Hopkins and Earle; Reprinted in 2007.

Reprint of the last edition published during the eighteenthcentury. Called "the foundation text of jury independenceand of the jury as a bulwark of English Liberty," this workwas first published in 1680 with the title Grand Juryman'sOath and Office Explained. Hawles wrote The Englishman'sRight to outline the rights, duties and proper behavior of ajuryman. Immediately successful among Whigs and others whosaw themselves as defenders of English liberties, it wasreceived with great enthusiam in America, where it wasreprinted several times well into the nineteenth century.According to Cohen's Bibliography of Early American Law, itwas probably the first English law book reprinted in theAmerican colonies (1481).Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.

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