A Report of the Cases of the King V. Wright, and the King V. De Yonge, Who Were Severally Tried for Exchanging Guineas for Bank Notes

Publisher Marketing: Full Title: "A Report of The Cases of The King v. Wright, and The King v. De Yonge, Who Were Severally Tried for Exchanging Guineas for Bank Notes"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++MonographHarvard Law School LibraryLondon: Printed by A. Strahan, Law-Printer to The King's Most Excellent Majesty, for J. Butterworth, Law Bookseller, Fleet-Street, and J. Cooke, Ormond-Quay, Dublin. 1811 Contributor Bio:  King, John John King is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a past President of the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists and in 2001 he was awarded their highest honour, the Gold Medal, 'in recognition of outstanding contributions to plant physiology in Canada'. The first edition of Reaching for the Sun (Cambridge University Press, 1997) was nominated for the Rh ne-Poulenc (now Aventis) Prize for Science (General Category).