False Friends, Spiteful Enemies
A Community at Law in Early Modern England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4558026 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Churches (The University of Adelaide, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 174 |
| Pages | 52-74 |
| Publication date | 1998-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Historical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-3471 • E-ISSN: 1468-2281 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2281.00053 |
| OpenAlex | W2143529072 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article examines a body of lawsuits from the fast-growing colliery port of Whitehaven in northwest England, in the early eighteenth century. The matching estate correspondence illuminates how litigation affected relations between the major landowning family and their tenants, and how it was used by different interest groups within the town. Looking at the use of the law from the standpoint of the litigants, examining who initiated the suits and why, and with what results, will go some way in furthering our knowledge of the culture of the law in early modern England
English law · Estate · New england · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |