Contents
Pledge
The Legal History of Pledge
This section provides an overview of Pledge
Pledge
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on pledge explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
Resources
Further Reading
- The entry “pledge” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
Resources
See Also
- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Pledge in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Pledge in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
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