Author: Robert EyrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conscience
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Discourse Concerning the Nature and Satisfaction of a Good and Inoffensive Conscience
Author: Robert EyrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conscience
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Conscience, Equity and the Court of Chancery in Early Modern England
Author: Dennis R. KlinckPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317161955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Judicial equity developed in England during the medieval period, providing an alternative access to justice for cases that the rigid structures of the common law could not accommodate. Where the common law was constrained by precedent and strict procedural and substantive rules, equity relied on principles of natural justice - or 'conscience' - to decide cases and right wrongs. Overseen by the Lord Chancellor, equity became one of the twin pillars of the English legal system with the Court of Chancery playing an ever greater role in the legal life of the nation. Yet, whilst the Chancery was commonly - and still sometimes is - referred to as a 'court of conscience', there is remarkably little consensus about what this actually means, or indeed whose conscience is under discussion. This study tackles the difficult subject of the place of conscience in the development of English equity during a crucial period of legal history. Addressing the notion of conscience as a juristic principle in the Court of Chancery during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the book explores how the concept was understood and how it figured in legal judgment. Drawing upon both legal and broader cultural materials, it explains how that understanding differed from modern notions and how it might have been more consistent with criteria we commonly associate with objective legal judgement than the modern, more 'subjective', concept of conscience. The study culminates with an examination of the chancellorship of Lord Nottingham (1673-82), who, because of his efforts to transform equity from a jurisdiction associated with discretion into one based on rules, is conventionally regarded as the father of modern, 'systematic' equity. From a broader perspective, this study can be seen as a contribution to the enduring discussion of the relationship between 'formal' accounts of law, which see it as systems of rules, and less formal accounts, which try to make room for intuitive moral or prudential reasoning.
Literary Anecdotes Of The Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs Of William Bowyer ... And Many Of His Learned Friends
Author: John NicholsJournal of the History of Ideas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
An international quarterly devoted to intellectual history.
The English Horace
Author: David K. MoneyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
An entertaining study of Anthony Alsop (d. 1726), the author of Latin Odes in the style of Horace. Also prints the full text of his Latin and English verse, and provides English translations of the Latin.
The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709 A.D.: 1683-1696
Author: Edward ArberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Accessing Early English Books, 1641-1700: Subject index
Author: University Microfilms InternationalPublisher: Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilm International
ISBN:
Category : Books on micorofilm
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
UMI's "Early English books, 1641-1700" series is a microfilm collection of works selected from: Donald Wing's "Short-title catalog of books ... 1641-1700".
The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709, (A.D.; with a Number for Easter Term, 1711 A.D.): 1683-1696
Author: Edward ArberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
A History of English Assizes 1558-1714
Author: J. S. CockburnPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521084499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Historical background and the operations of the court.
Author: Bodleian Library