Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England

”…a workof undoubted scholarship, yet one which remains readable and engaging…it should satisfy the most demanding of private lawyers, whilst at the same time remaining interesting and accessible to anyone with even a passing interest in the history of common law.” Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly Vol 54 no 1”…an impressive reach of research” Modern Law Review, September 2003”This is an original contribution to our understanding of how local government functioned in the late nineteenth centuty” Modern Law Review, September 2003”“…an enlightening study. It is a tour de force of legal forensics and analysis, always intelligent and highly readable even when dealing with some remarkably complex legal doctrine” Modern Law Review, September 2003

Michael Taggart is Professor of Law at The University of Auckland. He studied law at the University of Auckland and Harvard University. He has taught law at the University of Auckland since 1982. Before that he taught at the University of Western Ontario and has visited Queen’s University, Canada, the University of Saskatchewen, the University of Toronto and at the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, New Zealand.