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Arbitration and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century England
Derek Roebuck
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Description for Arbitration and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century England
Hardcover. Despite plague, fire, political upheaval and religious strife, in the 17th century English people used mediation and arbitration to help resolve their differences. As the century drew to its close, lawyers advised their clients to take advantage of the courts' offer to accept a claim and to refer it to arbitration. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBTB; LAFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 223 x 47. Weight in Grams: 788.
Despite plague, fire, political upheaval and religious strife, in the 17th century English people of all kinds used mediation and arbitration routinely to help resolve their differences. Kings and poor widows were parties. Kings and yeomen arbitrated. Francis Bacon, Edward Coke, Samuel Pepys, Robert Hooke and James I himself all took what they called arbitrament for granted as the best way of resolving all kinds of disputes they could not manage themselves. The redoubtable Lady Anne Clifford was exceptional; she successfully withstood the insistent demands of James I to arbitrate in her land dispute with her husband and family. Women ... Read more
Despite plague, fire, political upheaval and religious strife, in the 17th century English people of all kinds used mediation and arbitration routinely to help resolve their differences. Kings and poor widows were parties. Kings and yeomen arbitrated. Francis Bacon, Edward Coke, Samuel Pepys, Robert Hooke and James I himself all took what they called arbitrament for granted as the best way of resolving all kinds of disputes they could not manage themselves. The redoubtable Lady Anne Clifford was exceptional; she successfully withstood the insistent demands of James I to arbitrate in her land dispute with her husband and family. Women ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Holo Books The Arbitration Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
788g
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780957215313
SKU
V9780957215313
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About Derek Roebuck
Derek Roebuck is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at London University's Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. His work on dispute resolution history has produced six volumes published by HOLO Books: The Arbitration Press: Ancient Greek Arbitration (2001), Roman Arbitration (2004) with Bruno de Loynes de Fumichon, Early English Arbitration (2008), Mediation and Arbitration in the Middle Ages (2013) and The ... Read more
Reviews for Arbitration and Mediation in Seventeenth-Century England
'We do not have a time-travelling machine, but we have Derek Roebuck, and that is even better: not only a way to voyage back in time, but a guide who puts everything brilliantly in context.' Jan Paulsson Arbitration International. 'Roebuck's method is an engaging series of polymathic raids into the territory of geographers, ethnographers, linguists, lawyers, historians and archaeologists. ' ... Read more