Lord Eldon
historical figure · 2 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Eldon
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Lord Chancellor whose cautious elaboration of equity and obstruction of legal reform typified the reactionary toryism of the early nineteenth century.
they were next arrested by that reaction against Jacobinism and revolutionary violence which is represented by the legislative timidity of Lord Eldon;
he has not held the seals for the length of time during which they were retained by Lord Eldon, but he has, we may be sure, carried through, proposed or sanctioned, legal innovations far more numerous and far more fundamental than were suggested or enacted by Lord Eldon during his twenty-seven years of office.
In any case, it was this mixture of Blackstonian content with everything English, and Eldonian dread of any change which panic-stricken prejudice could term foreign or Jacobinical, that coloured the whole public opinion of 1800, and determined the course of legislation during the first twenty-five or thirty years of the nineteenth century.
Ancient Law
The English Lord Chancellor credited with fixing the form of English Equity rather than continuing to expand it.
The same point of legal history was attained in England under the chancellorship of Lord Eldon the first of our equity judges who, instead of enlarging the jurisprudence of his court by indirect legislation, devoted himself through life to explaining and harmonising it.
Still more recently, and particularly at the middle and during the latter half of the eighteenth century, the mixed systems of jurisprudence and morals constructed by the publicists of the Low Countries appear to have been much studied by English lawyers, and from the chancellorship of Lord Talbot to the commencement of Lord Eldon’s chancellorship these works had considerable effect on the rulings …