Commentaries upon martial law
Subtitle: with special reference to its regulation and restraint : with an introduction, containing comments upon the charge of the lord chief justice in the Jamaica case
By: by W.F. Finlason.
Contributors: Cockburn, Alexander James Edmund, Sir, 1802-1880.
Publisher: F.B. Rothman
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Littleton, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Martial law -- Great Britain; Jamaica -- History -- Insurrection, 1865
Other titles: Martial law.
Notes: Originally published: London : Stevens, 1867.
Spine title: Martial law.
The charge discussed is that of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn to the grand jury at the central criminal court in the case of Nelson and Brand accused of offenses committed during the Jamaica insurrection of 1865.