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The Etablissements de Saint Louis : Thirteenth-Century Law Texts from Tours, Orléans, and Paris /
A hybrid text, the Etablissements was probably compiled by a lawyer around the year 1273. The whole book takes its name from its first part, a set of nine ordinances of Louis IX giving the rules of procedure for the court of the Chatelet in Paris. The second part, made up of one hundred and sixty-si...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""The Laws of Saint Louis""; ""Prologue""; ""BOOK 1 THE RULES OF PROCEDURE IN THE CHÂTELET""; ""1. The first rubric of the first case is: The duties of the provost.""; ""2. On forcing witnesses to give testimony in the provost's court.""; ""3. On forbidding judicial battles and producing valid proof.""; ""4. On informing the plaintiff about the penalty and on contesting witnesses.""; ""5. These are the cases of high justice of barons.""; ""6. On appealing against a man for serfdom in the secular court.""
- ""7. On reversing a judgment in the king's court.""""8. On appealing against your lord for default of judgment.""; ""9. On punishing false witnesses.""; ""THE CUSTOMS OF TOURAINE AND ANJOU""; ""10. On gifts by a gentleman to his children, and how they should distribute the estate if the father dies without making provisions.""; ""11. On making partitions.""; ""12. On distributions made among sisters after the father's death.""; ""13. On the marriage gift given at the church door and keeping it for life after the heir has cried or yelled.""; ""14. On promiscuous gentlewomen.""
- ""15. On having a partition as the oldest son.""""16. On purchased or otherwise acquired real property.""; ""17. On [a gentlewoman] paying her husband's debts.""; ""18. On the rights of gentlewomen and on keeping their dower in good condition.""; ""19. On keeping custodianship lands in good condition until the heir comes of age.""; ""20. Suits on land.""; ""21. On gifts to a [new] knight [or] as a marriage gift.""; ""22. On distributing property descended from grandfathers and grandmothers.""; ""23. On lateral inheritance from brothers.""; ""24. On relief paid for land held in coholdership.""
- ""25. On marrying a commoner.""""26. On distributing a barony.""; ""27. On high justice in a barony; on murder, rape, and homicide of pregnant women [ancis].""; ""28. On summoning and banishing an offender and coming and destroying property after the banishment.""; ""29. On suspicion and summonses by a judge in the secular court.""; ""30. On fights.""; ""31. On requesting a guaranteed peace [asseürement] in the secular court, and on broken truces.""; ""32. On stealing an animal or a horse, and loss of limb for the offense.""
- ""33. On high justice in the matter of treachery by a household member.""""34. On the jurisdiction of a [lower] vassal [vavassor].""; ""35. On women who consort with thieves or murderers.""; ""36. On going along with murderers and thieves.""; ""37. On accomplices of murderers.""; ""38. On punishing suspicious persons on the initiative of the provost.""; ""39. On women's misadventure and a repeat thereof.""; ""40. On the intention of homicide without more.""