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Communities and Courts in Britain, 1150-1900.

The essays in Communities and Courts in Britain, 1150-1900 all reflect the wider concept of legal history - how legal processes fitted into the social and political life of the community and how courts and other legal processes were used by contemporaries. In doing so they aim both to justify the st...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brooks, C. W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 1997.
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  • Cover; Contents; Figures; Preface; The British Legal History Conference; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Political Philosophy of the Lord King; 2 Linguistic Communities in Medieval Scots Law; 3 London''s Courts of Law in the Fifteenth Century: The Litigants'' Perspective; 4 Manor Courts and the Governance of Tudor England; 5 Juridical Folklore in England Illustrated by Rough Music; 6 Civil Litigation in the High Court of Admiralty, 1585-95; 7 The Influence of Revenue Considerations upon the Remedial Practice of Chancery in Trust Cases, 1536-1660.
  • 8 Common Law and Statutory Imitations of Equitable Relief under the Later Stuarts9 Testamentary Causes in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1660-96; 10 Rural Credit, Market Areas and Legal Institutions in the Countryside in England, 1550-1700; 11 Recourse to Law and the Meaning of the Great Litigation Decline, 1650-1750: Some Clues from the Shrewsbury Local Courts; 12 Judges and Hunters: Law and Economic Conflict in the English Countryside, 1800-60; 13 ''Perhaps My Mother Murdered Me'': Child Death and the Law in Victorian Carmarthenshire.