The Jews and the English LawReprint of the sole edition. With a table of statutes and a table of cases. An authority on the legal status of English Jews, Henriques [1866-1925] was a barrister, Vinerian Scholar at Oxford and the author of The Jews Return to England (1905), Jewish Marriages and the English Law (1909) and several historical and critical essays. The present work is a legal history of English Jews from the Saxon period to the early 1900s. Informative and well-written, it is both an excellent introduction and a handy reference. |
Contents
Recent changes in the law of naturalization | 17 |
The Jewish religion protected though outside the benefit of | 19 |
IV | 23 |
Mr Robert Grants Jews Civil Disabilities Bill 183036 | 36 |
II | 50 |
Date of the return of the Jews to England | 54 |
Effect of the banishment on the revenue of the King | 60 |
9 | 65 |
Alterations in the law of heresy | 185 |
The profession of schoolmasters and tutors | 207 |
The CowperTemple clause | 217 |
The oath of allegiance and supremacy | 225 |
Other legal decisions | 251 |
A Jew may now be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or Lord Chancellor | 262 |
Later history of these promissory oaths | 273 |
In re Michels Trusts | 274 |
Baron de Rothschild elected to represent the city | 67 |
VI | 68 |
PAGE | 94 |
200 | 112 |
Cromwells attitude to the Jews | 115 |
No change in the legal status of the Jews till the Restoration | 128 |
The Five Mile Act 1665 | 134 |
Declaration of Indulgence 1672 | 136 |
VII | 142 |
167 | 148 |
The secrecy surrounding the synagogue discarded at the end | 152 |
Progress made in the Establishment of a Jewish community | 161 |
The Act against Blasphemy and Profaneness | 167 |
Resulting anomaly in the law as to the Registration of synagogues | 173 |
Lord Lucans suggestion for compromise | 292 |
The struggle transferred to the Law Courts James issues | 296 |
The settlement hastened by the fall of the Liberal Government | 298 |
29 | 301 |
Lord Rothschild created a peer in 1885 | 304 |
The Toleration | 308 |
The right of Jews to participate in general endowments | 310 |
Lord John Russells Parliamentary Oaths Bill | 311 |
ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA | 315 |
Effect of promissory oaths | 316 |
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