The uses of justice in global perspective, 1600-1900 / edited by Griet Vermeesch, Manon van der Heijden, and Jaco Zuijderduijn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Manon van der Heijden and Griet Vermeesch -- The Sinitic justice system, past and present in a global perspective / Philip C. C. Huang -- Threads of the legal web : Dutch law and everyday colonialism in eighteenth-century Asia / Alicia Schrikker and Dries Lyna -- Facing the law in eighteenth-century Galle / Nadeera Rupesinghe -- Legal pluralism in the cities of the early modern Kingdom of Poland : the jurisdictional conflicts and uses of justice by Armenian merchants / Alexandr Osipian -- The use and abuse of legal services in nineteenth-century Russia / Elizaveta Blagodeteleva -- Skipping court : civil disputes in sixteenth-century Rouen / Katherine Godwin -- In hope of agreement : norm and practice in the use of institutes for dispute settlement in late seventeenth-century Leiden / Aries van Meeteren and Griet Vermeesch -- Justice and the confines of the law in early modern Spain / Tom�as Mantec�on -- Lo extrajudicial : between court and community in the Spanish empire / Bianca Premo -- Legal pluralism, hybridization and the uses of everyday criminal law in Quebec, 1760-1867 / Donald Fyson.