 | Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in The Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855 Until 1855, slanderous language was punishable in Britain's ecclesiastical courts. Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. The evidence of the witnesses supplies fascinating details of day-to-day events. Waddams S.M. : Steven Waddams is a professor of law at the University of Toronto. |
