Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law
Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
Author: Association of American Law SchoolsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law
Author: Hiroshi Hayashi (LL. B.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages :
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Extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Laws
Author: Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: Tom LambertPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191089605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King Æthelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman Conquest of 1066. It attempts to escape the traditional retrospective assumptions of legal history, focused on the late twelfth-century Common Law, and to establish a new interpretative framework for the subject, more sensitive to contemporary cultural assumptions and practical realities. The focus of the volume is on the maintenance of order: what constituted good order; what forms of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what roles kings, lords, communities, and individuals were expected to play in maintaining it; and how that worked in practice. Its core argument is that the Anglo-Saxons had a coherent, stable, and enduring legal order that lacks modern analogies: it was neither state-like nor stateless, and needs to be understood on its own terms rather than as a variant or hybrid of these models. Tom Lambert elucidates a distinctively early medieval understanding of the tension between the interests of individuals and communities, and a vision of how that tension ought to be managed that, strikingly, treats strongly libertarian and communitarian features as complementary. Potentially violent, honour-focused feuding was an integral aspect of legitimate legal practice throughout the period, but so too was fearsome punishment for forms of wrongdoing judged socially threatening. Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England charts the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice, presenting a picture of increasingly ambitious and effective royal legal innovation that relied more on the cooperation of local communal assemblies than kings' sparse and patchy network of administrative officials.
Case Law in Roman, Anglosaxon and Continental Law
Author: María José Falcón y TellaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004204172
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Case law is a widely studied field, posing a series of questions. The first issue relates to the nature of case law itself, as the term cannot be given a single meaning. There is no one definition of case law, but rather a plurality of meanings depending on the historical period and legal system in question. After an analysis of Roman iurisprudentia and Anglo-Saxon case law, this work considers the Spanish legal system, as an example of a Continental jurisdiction, and distinguishes between the case laws of the Supreme and Constitutional Courts, the European courts, and the Superior Courts of Justice of the Autonomous Communities. The book analyses these issues, among many others, in a clear and in-depth manner, from an historical and comparative approach of great interest and academic value.
The Atlantic Monthly
Author: English Penitential Discipline and Anglo-Saxon Law in Their Joint Influence
Author: Thomas Pollock OakleyPublisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584773022
Category : Law, Anglo-Saxon
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Oakley, Thomas Pollack. English Penitential Discipline and Anglo-Saxon Law in Their Joint Influence. New York: Columbia University Press, 1923. 226 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-302-2. Cloth. $65. * Penitentials are manuals for confessors that outline penances and their fines. They originated in the Celtic church and their use spread throughout the British Isles during the early middle ages. Though restricted to church discipline, they often influenced secular law. Beginning with a history and discussion of the penitentials, Oakley examines the legal traditions that influenced their development and their reciprocal influence on the development of the common law. Originally published as Volume CVII, Number 2 in Columbia's series, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law.
Atlantic Monthly
Author: Studies in English Legal History
Author: Theodore Frank Thomas PlucknettPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780907628118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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