[English legal records] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [English legal records]
Subject: law; Lawyers; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures
Period: 1800-1850;
Description: In chapter five, Gulliver explains several aspects of society in England. Here we see a stack of books that have records of past court cases. The image appears when Gulliver explains the rule of precedent to his Master. The rule of precedent is when a judge or lawyers refer to the outcome of a past court case to determine what should be done in a similar situation. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
Image Creator: Grandville (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Book Illustrations
Identifier: mta:21207
Language: ger
Source Name: Gulliver's Reisen in unbekannte Länder
Parent Collection: 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2; 1839 Stuttgart Grandville vol. 2
Image: mta_21207_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: law; Lawyers; fictional works; imaginary places; Fictitious characters; imaginary creatures