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Volume 29 - Issue 1 - April 1971

Contents

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Case and Comment

Articles

  • New Light on Slade's Case
  • J. H. Baker
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2009, pp. 51-67
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    Slade's Case is of such significance in the history of the common law that it has, quite properly, been the subject of more scrutiny and discussion in recent years than any other case of the same age. The foundation of all this discussion has been Coke's report, which is the only full report in print. The accuracy and completeness of Coke's version have hardly been challenged, and the discussions have assumed that it contains almost all there is to know about the case. This assumption must be discarded if we are to understand the contemporary significance of the case.

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