Author: Charles GrossPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The Court of Piepowder
Author: Charles GrossThe Oxford History of the Laws of England: 1483-1558
Author: John Hamilton BakerPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0198258178
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1115
Book Description
This volume in 'The Oxford History of the Laws of England' covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social political, and intellectual changes which profoundly affected the law and its workings.
"Pie-powder," Being Dust from the Law Courts
Author: John Alderson FootePublisher:
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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The Practical Register
Author: John LillyPublisher:
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Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI
Author: John BakerPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019102970X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1115
Book Description
This volume covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual changes, which profoundly affected the law and its workings. It first considers constitutional developments, and addresses the question of whether there was a rule of law under king Henry VIII. In a period of supposed despotism, and enhanced parliamentary power, protection of liberty was increasing and habeas corpus was emerging. The volume considers the extent to which the law was affected by the intellectual changes of the Renaissance, and how far the English experience differed from that of the Continent. It includes a study of the myriad jurisdictions in Tudor England and their workings; and examines important procedural changes in the central courts, which represent a revolution in the way that cases were presented and decided. The legal profession, its education, its functions, and its literature are examined, and the impact of printing upon legal learning and the role of case-law in comparison with law-school doctrine are addressed. The volume then considers the law itself. Criminal law was becoming more focused during this period as a result of doctrinal exposition in the inns of court and occasional reports of trials. After major conflicts with the Church, major adjustments were made to the benefit of clergy, and the privilege of sanctuary was all but abolished. The volume examines the law of persons in detail, addressing the impact of the abolition of monastic status, the virtual disappearance of villeinage, developments in the law of corporations, and some remarkable statements about the equality of women. The history of private law during this period is dominated by real property and particularly the Statutes of Uses and Wills (designed to protect the king's feudal income against the consequences of trusts) which are given a new interpretation. Leaseholders and copyholders came to be treated as full landowners with rights assimilated to those of freeholders. The land law of the time was highly sophisticated, and becoming more so, but it was only during this period that the beginnings of a law of chattels became discernible. There were also significant changes in the law of contract and tort, not least in the development of a satisfactory remedy for recovering debts.
Fairs, Past and Present
Author: Cornelius WalfordPublisher:
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Category : Fairs
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
Author: Great Britain. Court of King's BenchPublisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 594
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A Power to Do Justice
Author: Bradin CormackPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226116255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When the common law engaged with other court systems in England, when it encountered territories like Ireland and France, or when it confronted the ocean as a juridical space, the law revealed its qualities of ingenuity and improvisation. In other words, as Bradin Cormack argues, jurisdictional crisis made visible the law’s resemblance to the literary arts. A Power to Do Justice shows how Renaissance writers engaged the practical and conceptual dynamics of jurisdiction, both as a subject for critical investigation and as a frame for articulating literature’s sense of itself. Reassessing the relation between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare, Cormack argues that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law’s power, even as they clarify the forms of intensification that make literary space a reality. Tracking cultural responses to Renaissance jurisdictional thinking and legal centralization, A Power to Do Justice makes theoretical, literary-historical, and methodological contributions that set a new standard for law and the humanities and for the cultural history of early modern law and literature.
The Periodical
Author: Publications of the Southampton Record Society
Author: Southampton Record Society, Southampton, EnglandPublisher:
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Category : Southampton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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