Henry Brougham
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Brougham · Lord Brougham
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Statesman and writer whose 1838 sketch of Bentham is quoted at length.
“The age of law reform and the age of Jeremy Bentham are one and the same.
he might be said to be the first legal philosopher that had appeared in the world.
These are the words of Brougham, published in 1838;
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
British statesman quoted on the difficulty of legislation.
The following extract from a speech of Lord Brougham, in the House of Lords, confesses the same difficulty:
“There was another subject, well worthy of the consideration of government during the recess,—the expediency, or rather the absolute necessity, of some arrangement for the preparation of bills, not merely private, but public bills, in order that legislation might be consistent and systematic, and that the courts might not have so large a portion of their time occupied in endeavoring to construe ac …