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"Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250). Examining the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the street of old Cairo and in Jewish and Muslim courts. Despite a voluminous literature on Jewish Law, the everyday practice of Jewish courts has only recently begun to be investigated systematically. The experiences of those in legal, social and cultural disadvantage allow us to go beyond the image propagated by legal institutions and offer a view "from below" of Jewish communal life and Jewish law as it was lived"-- Provided by publisher

"Living with the Law explores the marital disputes of Jews in medieval Islamic Egypt (1000-1250). Examining the rich documents of the Cairo Geniza, a unique repository of discarded paper discovered in Cairo synagogue, the book recovers the life stories of Jewish women and men working through their marital problems at home, with their families, in the street of old Cairo and in Jewish and Muslim courts. Despite a voluminous literature on Jewish Law, the everyday practice of Jewish courts has only recently begun to be investigated systematically. The experiences of those in legal, social and cultural disadvantage allow us to go beyond the image propagated by legal institutions and offer a view "from below" of Jewish communal life and Jewish law as it was lived"-- Provided by publisher.

• Law and emergency : two logics of colonial governance
• Reform public and the King's Court in Bombay City
• Summonses, writs and revenue defaulters in the mofussil
• Indirect rule threatened by raiders, princes and the King's Court - Habeas Corpus in times of emergency : the Bombay dispute
• Bengal, Madras and Imperial debate on despotism

This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court. Focusing on the collisions that took place in Bombay during the 1820s, the book analyses how Indians of various descriptions-peasants, revenue defaulters, government employees, merchants, chiefs, and princes-used the court to challenge the government (and vice versa) and demonstrates the mechanism through which the lawcourt hindered the government's indirect rule, which relied on local Indian rulers in newly conquered territories. The author concludes that existing political anxiety justified the East India Company's attempt to curtail the power of the court and strengthen their own power to intervene in emergencies through the renewal of the company's charter in 1834. An insightful read for those researching Indian history and judicial politics, this book engages with an understudied period of British rule in India, where the royal courts emerged as sites of conflict between the East India Company and a variety of Indian powers.
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• 1. Law and Emergency: Two Logics of Colonial Governanc
• e2. Reform Public and the King's Court in Bombay Cit
• y3. Summonses, Writs, and Revenue Defaulters in the Mofussi
• l4. Indirect Rule Threatened by Raiders, Princes, and the King's Cour
• t5. Habeas Corpus in Times of Emergency: The Bombay Disput
• e6. Bengal, Madras, and Imperial Debate on Despotis
• m7. Epilogue and Conclusion.
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This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians' forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King's Court. Focusing on the collisions that took place in Bombay during the 1820s, the book analyses how Indians of various descriptions-peasants, revenue defaulters, government employees, merchants, chiefs, and princes-used the court to challenge the government (and vice versa) and demonstrates the mechanism through which the lawcourt hindered the government's indirect rule, which relied on local Indian rulers in newly conquered territories. The author concludes that existing political anxiety justified the East India Company's attempt to curtail the power of the court and strengthen their own power to intervene in emergencies through the renewal of the company's charter in 1834. An insightful read for those researching Indian history and judicial politics, this book engages with an understudied period of British rule in India, where the royal courts emerged as sites of conflict between the East India Company and a variety of Indian powers.
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• Acknowledgments Translators' Notes Map of Nineteenth-century Korea Introduction Choson Korea in Its Last Century Case 1 An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent DeathYang Hang-nyon (P'yongyang, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 2 A Family Activist Confronts a Local MagnateMs. Pak (Yongin, Kyonggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century) Case 3 A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with DeathYi Pong-dol (Anui, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 4 Two Widows FightMadam Chang and Ms. Un (Yech'on, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 5 A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an InfantMun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 6 A Widower Seeks Private SettlementMs. Chong (Yongch'on, Kyongsang Province, 1889) Case 7 Adultery Leads to MurderMs. Paek (Anak, Hwanghae Province, 1897) Case 8 An Illegal Burial Begets a Son but Kills a RelativeKim Kap-san (Hoeyang, Kangwon Province, 1899) Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
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This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an amazingly vivid, colloquial account of the vibrant, multifaceted sociocultural and legal culture of early modern Korea.
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• Acknowledgments Translators' Notes Map of Nineteenth-century Korea Introduction Choson Korea in Its Last Century Case 1 An Adulterous Widower Meets a Violent DeathYang Hang-nyon (P'yongyang, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 2 A Family Activist Confronts a Local MagnateMs. Pak (Yongin, Kyonggi Province, Late Eighteenth Century) Case 3 A Defiant Slave Challenges His Master with DeathYi Pong-dol (Anui, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 4 Two Widows FightMadam Chang and Ms. Un (Yech'on, Kyongsang Province, 1842) Case 5 A Heartless Wet Nurse Abuses an InfantMun Chong-ji (Chunghwa, P'yongan Province, 1866) Case 6 A Widower Seeks Private SettlementMs. Chong (Yongch'on, Kyongsang Province, 1889) Case 7 Adultery Leads to MurderMs. Paek (Anak, Hwanghae Province, 1897) Case 8 An Illegal Burial Begets a Son but Kills a RelativeKim Kap-san (Hoeyang, Kangwon Province, 1899) Notes Glossary Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This collection presents and analyzes inquest records that tell the stories of ordinary Korean people under the Choson court (1392-1910). Extending the study of this period, usually limited to elites, into the realm of everyday life, each inquest record includes a detailed postmortem examination and features testimony from everyone directly or indirectly related to the incident. The result is an amazingly vivid, colloquial account of the vibrant, multifaceted sociocultural and legal culture of early modern Korea.
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• Introduction
• The De specialibus legibus, books I-IV
• The Jewish law of Egypt
• Index locorum
• Index nominum et rerum.

• Introduction
• The De specialibus legibus, books I-IV
• The Jewish law of Egypt
• Index locorum
• Index nominum et rerum.