Stories
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How nature is defending itself in court
The idea that nature has legal rights is increasingly being taken seriously, but who gets to speak for it? Isabella Kaminski asks how the non-human can be represented within a human-made system.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
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The girl with no name
When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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An inquiry into the state of the legal and judicial polity of Scotland. By John Martin, of Richmond Buildings, Soho: Attorney of the Courts of England, and Solicitor of the Courts of Scotland. Part I.
Martin, John (Attorney)Date: 1792- Books
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A letter to the Earl of Lauderdale, to prove that the high court of Parliament has a jurisdiction in cases of appeal against the judgments of the court of justiciary in Scotland. By John Martin, of Richmond-Buildings, Soho. Attorney of the Courts of England, and Solicitor of the Courts of Scotland; Author of an Inquiry into the State of the Legal and Judicial Polity of Scotland, &c.
Martin, John (Attorney)Date: 1793- Books
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Costs in the High Court of Chancery; shewing at one view the disbursements out of pocket, and the charges of the agent and solicitor. Also Setting forth what is allowed or disallowed by the Master on the Taxation of a Suit either for plantiff or defendant. Interspersed With some bills of costs on Interlocutory and other Matters, also Costs relating to the appointing a Guardian to consent to Marriage, admitting Solicitors, &c. &c. To which is added a bill of Costs as taxed in the Exchequer of Pleas. By a solicitor of the said courts,
Solicitor of the Said Courts.Date: 1777- Books
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Costs in the High Court of Chancery; shewing at one view the disbursements out of pocket, and the charges of the agent and solicitor. Also Setting forth what is allowed or disallowed by the Master on the Taxation of a Suit either for Plaintiff or Defendant. Interspersed With some Bills of Costs on Interlocutory and other Matters, also Costs relating to the appointing a Guardian to consent to Marriage, admitting Solicitors, &c. &c. To which is added, a Bill of Costs for Plaintiff as well as Defendant, as taxed in the Exchequer of Pleas. The second edition corrected, with additions. By a solicitor of the said courts.
Solicitor of the Said Courts.Date: 1779- Books
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A collection of interrogatories for the examination of witnesses in courts of equity. As settled by the most eminent counsel. The fourth edition, considerably enlarged, and carefully corrected, (from the errors of all other editions.) By an old solicitor.
Old Solicitor.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]