Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, 1852/3. It features the long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce.

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This novel helped support a judicial reform movement which led to legal reform in the 1870s.[1]

References
  1. Oldham, James. "A Profusion of Chancery Reform". Law and History Review.


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