Commentaries Upon Martial Law, With Special Reference... Regulation...
[Finlason, William Francis (1818-1895)]. Commentaries Upon Martial Law, With Special Reference to its Regulation and Restraint; With an Introduction, Containing Comments Upon the Charge of the Lord Chief Justice. London, Stevens and Sons, 1867. [2], 287 pp. Octavo (8-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Original cloth, blind frames to boards, gilt title to front cover. Moderately worn and soiled with some rubbing to extremities, corners bumped. Ex-library with ink shelf location label to foot of spine. Bookplate of Joseph M. Gleason to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature "[Hardwicke?]" to front pastedown. Author inscription "The R. Hon./ The Earl of Hardwicke/ From the author" to head of title page, internally clean. A nice copy. $250. * Only edition. Gleason [1869-1942] was a Catholic priest, historian and collector. In 1865 a rebellion took place in Morant Bay, Jamaica. A crucial event in the history of Jamaica and colonialism, the rebellion was brutally suppressed, the colony placed under martial law and the supposed leaders executed after dubious legal proceedings. These events provoked fierce debate in Great Britain and inspired Finlason's treatise. A remarkable piece of scholarship, it probes legal aspects of the rebellion in its 72-page introduction, then continues with a historically grounded commentary on martial law. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:121.
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