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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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]- Books
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An address to the people of Ireland, by Messrs. Thomas and Joshua Whitehouse, Formerly Proprietors of the State Lottery Office, Parliament-Street, Dublin.
Whitehouse, Thomas.Date: [1773]- Books
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An address to the people of Ireland, by Messrs. Thomas and Joshua Whitehouse, formerly proprietors of the state lottery office, Parliament-street, Dublin.
Whitehouse, Thomas.Date: [1773]