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Bleak House

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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.

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

References

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