Anomalies of the English law (Registro nro. 117956)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | KD |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Chester, S. Beach |
| Fuller form of name | (Samuel Beach), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1880-1942 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Anomalies of the English law |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-11-14 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | deaurider, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Anomalies of the English law" by S. Beach Chester is a legal commentary written in the early 20th century. It surveys contradictions and inequities across English law and urges humane, common‑sense reforms, using vivid cases and comparisons with Scottish, French, and Roman law. The focus is on how rigid formalities and costly, centralised procedures injure ordinary people and how targeted changes could make justice simpler, fairer, and cheaper.<br/><br/>The opening of this work frames the project with a lively satire on barristers’ omniscience, then launches into a reformist critique of divorce: it condemns combining Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty under one judge, calls for abolishing judicial separation and the decree nisi delay, allowing divorce after a year’s separation (including mutual adultery cases), and extending cheap, local access via County Courts—arguments illustrated by hard cases (a compassionate decree to a “fallen” wife, a Norwich compensation dispute between two putative widows, a fabricated confession, and the futility of “restitution of conjugal rights”). It next examines death and burial through a proposed Coroners’ Bill—professionalising coroners, adding pathologists, permitting inquiries without full inquests, tightening records, and, crucially, requiring certification of the fact as well as cause of death—while warning against premature burial, critiquing French grave leases and funeral monopolies, and urging oversight of exploitative undertakers. A chapter on wills stresses strict execution formalities (two witnesses present, marriage revocation), shows how tiny defects can defeat clear intent (a dying mother unable to sign; a later holograph will fought on witnessing technicalities), and notes that one cannot profit from crime (the Crippen probate ruling). On libel and slander, it concisely defines what is actionable, outlines publication and criminal aspects (sedition, obscenity), recounts the Mylius libel on the King and the court’s response, and suggests hearing some cases in camera to avoid compounding harm. The text then begins to challenge imprisonment for debt and the perverse dynamics of credit before the excerpt ends. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1912 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Law |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Law -- Great Britain -- History |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lever, Charles, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1806-1872 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/anomaliesofengli00chesuoft">https://archive.org/details/anomaliesofengli00chesuoft</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77236">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77236</a> |
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