Author: R. C. van CaenegemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I
Author: R. C. van CaenegemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Power and Justice in Medieval England
Author: Joshua C. TatePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300163835
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy--an "advowson"--was one of the most important rights in medieval England. The king, the monasteries, and local landowners all wanted to control advowsons because they meant political, social, and economic influence. The question of law turned on who had the superior legal claim to the vacancy--which was a type of property--at the time the position needed to be filled. In tracing how these conflicts were resolved, Joshua C. Tate takes a sharply different view from that of historians who focus only on questions of land ownership, and he shows that the English needed new legal contours to address the questions of ownership and possession that arose from these disputes. Tate argues that the innovations made necessary by advowson law helped give birth to modern common law and common law courts.
The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law
Author: David Shephard GarlandPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description
The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II
Author: John HudsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191630039
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge. The first full-length treatment of all aspects of the early development of the English common law in a century, featuring extensive research into the original sources that bring the era to life, and providing an interpretative account, a detailed subject analysis, and fascinating glimpses into medieval disputes. Starting with King Alfred (871-899), this book examines the particular contributions of the Anglo-Saxon period to the development of English law, including the development of a powerful machinery of royal government, significant aspects of a long-lasting court structure, and important elements of law relating to theft and violence. Until the reign of King Stephen (1135-54), these Anglo-Saxon contributions were maintained by the Norman rulers, whilst the Conquest of 1066 led to the development of key aspects of landholding that were to have a continuing effect on the emerging common law. The Angevin period saw the establishment of more routine royal administration of justice, closer links between central government and individuals in the localities, and growing bureaucratization. Finally, the later twelfth and earlier thirteenth century saw influential changes in legal expertise. The book concludes with the rebellion against King John in 1215 and the production of the Magna Carta. Laying out in exhaustive detail the origins of the English common law through the ninth to the early thirteenth centuries, this book will be essential reading for all legal historians and a vital work of reference for academics, students, and practitioners.
A Discourse Concerning Western Planting
Author: Richard HakluytPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300
Author: John SabapathyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192587234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. A mentality emerged that trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct. The mentality was not inherently new, but it became qualitatively more complex and quantitatively more widespread in this period, across European countries, and across different sorts of officer. The officers exposed to these methods were not just 'state' ones, but also seignorial, ecclasistical, and university-college officers, as well as urban-communal ones. This study surveys these officers and the practices used to regulate them in England. It places them not only within a British context but also a wide European one and explores how administration, law, politics, and norms tried to control the insolence of office. The devices for institutionalising accountability analysed here reflected an extraordinarily creative response in England, and beyond, to the problem of complex government: inquests, audits, accounts, scrutiny panels, sindication. Many of them have shaped the way in which we think about accountability today. Some remain with us. So too do their practical problems. How can one delegate control effectively? How does accountability relate to responsibility? What relationship does accountability have with justice? This study offers answers for these questions in the Middle Ages, and is the first of its kind dedicated to an examination of this important topic in this period.
English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I
Author: R. C. van CaenegemPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages :
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Index-catalogue of the Law Library of the Supreme Court of Ohio. May 1, 1914
Author: Ohio. Supreme Court. Law LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated
Author: William MolyneuxPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Catalogue of the Law Books in the Kansas State Library
Author: Annie Le Porte DiggsPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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