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100	1		_aRushton, William Lowes, _d1827-1909
245	1	0	_aShakespeare's legal maxims
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-12-20
508			_aTim Miller 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			_a"Shakespeare's legal maxims by William Lowes Rushton" is a literary-legal treatise written in the early 20th century. It examines how Shakespeare’s plays embed and accurately translate Latin legal maxims, arguing that the playwright possessed genuine legal training. The book’s likely topic is the demonstration of Shakespeare’s legal knowledge through detailed comparison of legal principles with passages from the plays, presented as evidence that he studied law. The work opens with a defensive notice about earlier editions and misattributions, then proceeds as a continuous series of maxims paired with Shakespearean excerpts and succinct legal commentary. It explains judicial impartiality and the rule against judging one’s own cause; the authority of precedent; the distinct roles of judge and jury; possession and title; the legal unity of husband and wife; fixtures law; statutes that “sleep” but do not die; the Chancellor’s seal; a gaoler’s liability for escapes; lawful oaths and perjury; execution conforming to judgment; obedience to judicial orders; sovereign immunity; the need for concurrence of act and intent, including madness, misadventure, unlawful acts turning accidental deaths into murder, and self-defence; coroner’s findings in Ophelia’s case; contempt against judges as against the king; heraldic devices and seals; royal coinage; the city as its people; the danger of unenforced laws; the limits of will versus law; impartial justice; market value; attempts versus completed deeds; forfeiture of legal benefits by subverters of law; the credibility of deathbed statements; the sacred nature of swearing; and the “necessity of time.” It concludes that the consistent, precise application of these maxims across the plays is best explained by the poet’s having been, at least for a time, a student-at-law. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLiverpool: Henry Young & Sons, 1907
653			_aShakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Law
653			_aLaw in literature
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/shakespeareslega00rushuoft/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77514
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