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The Fee Tail and the Common Recovery in Medieval England
1176-1502
Av Joseph Biancalana, John H. Baker
Häftad, 2007
630 kr
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Fee tails were a basic building block for family landholding from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. The classic entail was an interest in land which was inalienable and could only pass at death by inheritance to the lineal heirs of the original grantee. …
Marriage Litigation in Medieval England
Häftad, 2007
820 kr
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This book tells one part of the long history of the institution of marriage. Questions concerning the formation and annulment of marriage came under the exclusive jurisdiction of the church courts during the Middle Ages. Drawing on unpublished records of these courts, Professor Helmholz describes …
The English Judiciary in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton c.1176-1239
Häftad, 2008
658 kr
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This book presents a study of the evolution of a professional judiciary in medieval England through the careers of forty-nine royal justices from the last decade of Henry II until 1239. Those years were crucial for the growth of the common law, producing the two legal treatises Glanvill and …
The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England
Thomas Kebell: A Case Study
Av E. W. Ives
Häftad, 2008
823 kr
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The English common lawyers wielded their greatest influence in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, with names like Fortescue, Littleton and More. In these years they were more than the only organized lay profession: in the infancy of statute, they, more than anyone, shaped and changed …
Law and Politics in Jacobean England
The Tracts of Lord Chancellor Ellesmere
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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This study is devoted chiefly to Ellesmere's career and writings as Lord Chancellor, 1603-1617. After an introduction to his life and career from 1541 to 1603, Part One is a study of his role in the legal and political history of Jacobean England. In order to place the analysis of law and politics …
History of the Law of Charity, 1532-1827
Av Gareth Jones
Häftad, 2008
720 kr
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This book covers the period from the Reformation to the end of Lord Eldon's Chancellorship when the modern law of charity had taken a definite shape. Mr Jones shows how the contemporary religious, economic and social pressures moulded the substantive law and illustrates the importance of procedural …
The Equity Side of the Exchequer
Av W. H. Bryson
Häftad, 2008
619 kr
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The court of the exchequer, which was the ancient court of tax claims, assumed an equity jurisdiction in the sixteenth century which continued until 1841. This book describes the rise, development and abolition of this part of the court. Professor Bryson begins with a discussion of the rise of the …
A History of English Assizes 1558-1714
Häftad, 2008
820 kr
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This book is primarily an account of the most familiar and longest lived of English courts during the most critical as well as the most influential period of its history. It describes all aspects of the court's work, personnel, jurisdiction, and constitutional position, throws incidental light on …
The Legal Framework of English Feudalism
The Maitland Lectures given in 1972
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land. The received picture depends upon progressive assumptions: key words began with their later meanings; the law began with abstract ideas of property; a tenant's title to his tenement was never subject to his …
English Law in Ireland 1290-1324
Av G. J. Hand
Häftad, 2008
653 kr
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Although the Englishmen who crossed the Irish Sea from 1169 onward brought with them their own speech and legal code, the credit for the creation of a firm basis for the alien English Law and legal institutions belongs to King John, when his accession united the Lordship of Ireland with the English …
The Ancient State Authoritie and Proceedings of the Court of Requests by Sir Julius Caesar
Av L. M. Hill
Häftad, 2008
804 kr
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Sir Julius Caesar was the servant of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I, serving as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, Master of Requests, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls and Privy Councillor. He also sat in the later Elizabethan parliaments and all but one in James' reign. …
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1833-1876
Its Origins, Structure and Development
Av P. A. Howell
Häftad, 2008
639 kr
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In the nineteenth century, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the supreme appellate tribunal for the British Empire, held sway over the lives, liberties and property of more than a quarter of the world's inhabitants, for it had the duty of hearing and determining appeals from some 150 …
The High Court of Delegates
Av Duncan
Häftad, 2008
636 kr
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This book, a study of the principal appellate court in the English civil law hierarchy, the High Court of Delegates, examines the history, jurisdiction, procedure, personnel and records of the court from the mid-sixteenth century until its abolition in 1832. In an introductory historical survey, …
Marriage Settlements, 1601-1740
The Adoption of the Strict Settlement
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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The history of the family has become an area of great interest, yet the property arrangements entered into upon marriage, a crucial aspect of the process of familial wealth transmission and distribution in the landed classes in early modern England, have never been systematically studied. In the …
Legal Foundations of Tribunals in Nineteenth Century England
Häftad, 2009
613 kr
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Nineteenth-century governments faced considerable challenges from the rapid, novel and profound changes in social and economic conditions resulting from the industrial revolution. In the context of an increasingly sophisticated and complex government, from the 1830s the specialist and largely lay …
Medieval English Conveyances
Av J. M. Kaye
Inbunden, 2009
1933 kr
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This study of the documents used in medieval England for the creation and transfer of interests in real property is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject since the publication of Thomas Madox's Formulare Anglicanum in 1702. The transactions covered include grants in fee and in perpetual …
Early English Legal Literature
Häftad, 2009
523 kr
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The six chapters of this book were originally delivered as lectures at the University of Cambridge. They were commissioned in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederic William Maitland (1850-1906). With the exception of the first chapter, the lectures in this volume were …
Aliens in Medieval Law
The Origins of Modern Citizenship
Av Keechang Kim
Häftad, 2011
718 kr
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This reinterpretation of the legal status of foreigners in medieval England boldly rejects the canonical view which has for centuries dominated the imagination of historians and laymen alike. Keechang Kim proposes an understanding of the genesis of the modern legal regime and the important …
Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England
The Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act
Häftad, 2011
613 kr
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Talfourd's first Copyright Bill was presented in 1837, and the public and Parliamentary controversy it provoked is reflected in contemporary pamphlets, correspondence, and hundreds of petitions presented to Parliament, as well as in the changing aims of the bill itself. In addition to the expected …
A History of the County Court, 1846-1971
Häftad, 2012
703 kr
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This 1999 book was the first full-length account of the county court, which in contemporary English life has become the main forum for most civil disputes. It began as the 'poor man's court', largely concerned with the pursuit of working-class debtors; but, as this book shows, it has expanded far …
The Law of Evidence in Victorian England
Häftad, 2011
643 kr
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In The Law of Evidence in Victorian England, which was originally published in 1997, Christopher Allen provides a fascinating account of the political, social and intellectual influences on the development of evidence law during the Victorian period. His book sets out to challenge the traditional …
The Royal Prerogative and the Learning of the Inns of Court
Häftad, 2010
613 kr
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Between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century Prerogativa Regis, a central text of fiscal feudalism, was introduced into the curriculum of the Inns of Court, developed, and then abandoned. This book argues that while lawyers often turned their attention to the text when political and …
An Introduction to the History and Records of the Courts of Wards and Liveries
Av H. E. Bell
Häftad, 2012
523 kr
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Originally published in 1953, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Court of Wards and Liveries. The court was established on 1540 as a means of administering the system of feudal dues, it was additionally responsible for wardship and livery issues. Formally abolished in 1660, the …
Medieval English Conveyances
Av J. M. Kaye
Häftad, 2012
506 kr
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This study of the documents used in medieval England for the creation and transfer of interests in real property is the first book devoted exclusively to the subject since the publication of Thomas Madox's Formulare Anglicanum in 1702. The transactions covered include grants in fee and in perpetual …
Roman Canon Law in Reformation England
Av R. H. Helmholz, John H. Baker
Inbunden, 1990
2029 kr
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In this book one of the world's foremost legal historians draws upon the evidence of the canon law, court records and the English common-law system to demonstrate the extent to which, contrary to received wisdom, Roman canon law survived in England after the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation. …
The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes
A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law
Inbunden, 1995
1498 kr
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This study traces the history of the law of bills and notes in England from medieval times to the period in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when bills played a central role in the domestic and international financial system. It challenges the traditional theory that English …
Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century
A Reassessment
Inbunden, 2009
1503 kr
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This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that couples married simply by exchanging consent, demonstrating that such exchanges were regarded merely as …
The Early History of the Law of Bills and Notes
A Study of the Origins of Anglo-American Commercial Law
Häftad, 2004
643 kr
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This study traces the history of the law of bills and notes in England from medieval times to the period in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when bills played a central role in the domestic and international financial system. It challenges the traditional theory that English …
Sir Henry Maine
A Study in Victorian Jurisprudence
Av Raymond Cocks, John H. Baker
Häftad, 2004
553 kr
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Sir Henry Maine died in 1888 and since then his ideas have been used by lawyers, historians, sociologists and many others. This is the first book to concentrate upon what he said about the law itself, and, as such, it explores the pioneering work Maine did in explaining law not by reference to …
Roman Canon Law in Reformation England
Av R. H. Helmholz, John H. Baker
Häftad, 2004
691 kr
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In this book one of the world's foremost legal historians draws upon the evidence of the canon law, court records and the English common-law system to demonstrate the extent to which, contrary to received wisdom, Roman canon law survived in England after the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation. …
