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Author:   R. W. Kostal
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.891kg
ISBN:  

9780198256717

ISBN 10:   019825671
Pages:   430
Publication Date:   01 September 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Law and the inception of railways: disorganizing capitalism - how lawyers made and unmade the railway manias, 1825-1845; ""A hurricane of litigation"" - railways, private acts and parliamentary legal culture, 1925-1870; the invasion of the land - railways, land expropriation and legal process, 1825-1850. Part 2 Law and the operational railways: into the ideological breach - railway monopolism, the small freight war and the courts, 1840-1872; localism and capitalism - law and the parochial taxation of railways, 1825-1862; ""The instrumentality of others"" - railway accidents and the courts, 1840-1875; a ""Ruinous system"" - railway companies and their lawyers, 1825-1875; a case study of the legal department of the London and North Western Railway, 1862-1875 - the problem of personal injury claims; conclusion - the dialectics of law and English railway capitalism, 1825-1875."

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