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The rise and fall of the English ecclesiastical courts, 1500-1860 /

Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Outhwaite, R. B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Cambridge studies in English legal history.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The ecclesiastical courts : structures and procedures
  • The business of the courts, 1500-1640
  • Tithe causes
  • Wills and testamentary causes
  • Defamation suits
  • Matrimonial suits and marriage licenses
  • Office causes
  • The roots of expansion and critical voices
  • Charting decline, 1640-1830
  • Explaining decline
  • The bills of 1733-1734
  • Snips and repairs : small steps to reform, 1753-1813
  • Royal commissions and early fruits, 1815-1832
  • Reform frustrated
  • Reforms thick and fast, 1854-1860.