Literature, Judges and the Law
- Author / Editor
- Osborough, W. N.
Literature, Judges and the Law
- Published
- Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- viii, 171 pp.
- Description
- Explores literary allusions used in the courts of law in Britain and Ireland, revealing how literature conceptually informs practical life. Osborough briefly mentions Chaucer when discussing etymology in a nineteenth-century case involving compensating a hotel employee upon termination. The court concluded that the hotel employee would not be considered a "menial" laborer, since in ShT only ordinary servants are labeled as meynee.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Shipman and His Tale