Abstract
AbstractThis chapter re-examines the transition from status to contract and from contractual individualism to legal collectivism by scrutinizing the authority of the law from three successive vantage points. It begins by surveying English criminal law reform, then considers English civil law reform, and concludes by exploring the evolution of ‘British’ law in the empire. The goal of the chapter is to suggest ways in which attention to place, personnel, and process can illuminate the broad patterns of legal change in the Victorian era in new ways. The interpretation is framed by the overarching question: ‘where should we look to find the authority of the Victorian law?’ That is, where should we seek the Victorian law in terms of its physical and administrative locations — inside English territorial borders or outside them, inside criminal or civil tribunals, within the superior or within the inferior court systems?.
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