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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in English legal history.
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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.