The Evolution Of English Justice

Author : W Mark Ormrod,Anthony Musson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349270040

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The Evolution of English Justice by W Mark Ormrod,Anthony Musson Pdf

The importance of the fourteenth century for the development of English law has long been recognised. The shocks and challenges of that period - the murder of the incompetent Edward II, Edward III's ever escalating military demands for the war in France and the unparalleled disaster of the Black Death - gave English society a trauma that found its ultimate expression in Lollardy and the Peasants' Revolt. Out of this ferment came the evolution of a system of justice still substantially recognisable today. This key theme for students of late medieval England has often been made needlessly difficult by the rarefied nature of most books available on the subject. The aim of this book is to present in lucid and approachable terms the main outline of the debate and the different schools of thought, and to suggest the best ways by which students can understand a crucial subject and how this helps illuminate many other aspects of English society during the reigns of Edward II, Edward III and Richard II.

Author : Doris Mary Stenton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : OCLC:185816555

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English Justice Between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter, 1066-1215 by Doris Mary Stenton Pdf

Author : Albert Thomas Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060031080

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A History of English Legal Institutions by Albert Thomas Carter Pdf

Author : John Reeves,William Francis Finlason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951002657611X

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Reeves' History of the English Law by John Reeves,William Francis Finlason Pdf

Author : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0907628117

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Studies in English Legal History by Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett Pdf

Author : Philip Girard,Jim Phillips,R. Blake Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487504632

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A History of Law in Canada, Vol. 1 by Philip Girard,Jim Phillips,R. Blake Brown Pdf

A History of Law in Canada is the first of two volumes. Volume one begins at a time just prior to European contact and continues to the 1860s, while volume two will start with Confederation and end at approximately 2000. The history of law includes substantive law, legal institutions, legal actors, and legal culture. The authors assume that since 1500 there have been three legal systems in Canada - the Indigenous, the French, and the English. At all times, these systems have co-existed and interacted, with the relative power and influence of each being more or less dominant in different periods. The history of law cannot be treated in isolation, and this book examines law as a dynamic process, shaped by and affecting other histories over the long term. The law guided and was guided by economic developments, was influenced and moulded by the nature and trajectory of political ideas and institutions, and variously exacerbated or mediated intercultural exchange and conflict. These themes are apparent in this examination, and through most areas of law including land settlement and tenure, and family, commercial, constitutional, and criminal law.

Author : John Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192540744

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Introduction to English Legal History by John Baker Pdf

Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law. The book traces the development of the principal features of English legal institutions and doctrines from Anglo-Saxon times to the present and, combined with Baker and Milsom's Sources of Legal History, offers invaluable insights into the development of the common law of persons, obligations, and property, and also of criminal and public law. It is an essential reference point for all lawyers, historians and students seeking to understand the evolution of English law over a millennium. The book provides an introduction to the main characteristics, institutions, and doctrines of English law over the longer term - particularly the evolution of the common law before the extensive statutory changes and regulatory regimes of the last two centuries. It explores how legal change was brought about in the common law and how judges and lawyers managed to square evolution with respect for inherited wisdom.

Author : Bradin Cormack
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226116259

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A Power to Do Justice by Bradin Cormack Pdf

English law underwent rapid transformation in the sixteenth century, in response to the Reformation and also to heightened litigation and legal professionalization. As the common law became more comprehensive and systematic, the principle of jurisdiction came under particular strain. When the common law engaged with other court systems in England, when it encountered territories like Ireland and France, or when it confronted the ocean as a juridical space, the law revealed its qualities of ingenuity and improvisation. In other words, as Bradin Cormack argues, jurisdictional crisis made visible the law’s resemblance to the literary arts. A Power to Do Justice shows how Renaissance writers engaged the practical and conceptual dynamics of jurisdiction, both as a subject for critical investigation and as a frame for articulating literature’s sense of itself. Reassessing the relation between English literature and law from More to Shakespeare, Cormack argues that where literary texts attend to jurisdiction, they dramatize how boundaries and limits are the very precondition of law’s power, even as they clarify the forms of intensification that make literary space a reality. Tracking cultural responses to Renaissance jurisdictional thinking and legal centralization, A Power to Do Justice makes theoretical, literary-historical, and methodological contributions that set a new standard for law and the humanities and for the cultural history of early modern law and literature.

Author : George Grant
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781770890213

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English-Speaking Justice by George Grant Pdf

George Grant's magnificent four-part meditation sums up much that is central to his own thought, including a critique of modern liberalism, an analysis of John Rawls's Theory of Justice, and insights into the larger Western philosophical tradition. This edition contains an introduction by Grant scholar Dr Robin Lathangue.

Author : Harold Potter,Owen Hood Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : England
ISBN : MINN:31951D00725132O

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A Short Outline of English Legal History by Harold Potter,Owen Hood Phillips Pdf

Author : Percy H. Winfield
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781587980794

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The Chief Sources of English Legal History by Percy H. Winfield Pdf

Author : Frederic William Maitland
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465592941

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Why the History of English Law is Not Written by Frederic William Maitland Pdf

Our patience of centennial celebrations has been somewhat severely tasked this year, nevertheless it may be allowed me to remind you that next year will see the seven-hundredth birthday of English legal memory. The doctrine that our memory goes back to the coronation of Richard I. and no further is of course a highly technical doctrine, the outcome of a statute of limitation, capricious as all such statutes must be; still in a certain sense it is curiously true. If we must fix a date at which English law becomes articulate, begins to speak to us clearly and continuously, the 3rd of September 1189 is perhaps the best date that we can choose. The writer whom we call Glanvill had just finished the first textbook that would become a permanent classic for English lawyers; some clerk was just going to write the earliest plea-roll that would come to our hands; in a superb series of such rolls law was beginning to have a continuous written memory, a memory that we can still take in our hands and handle. I would not for one moment speak slightingly of the memorials of an earlier time, only I would lay stress on the fact that before the end of the twelfth century our law is becoming very clear and well attested. When another century has gone by and we are in Edward I.'s reign the materials for legal history, materials of the most authoritative and authentic kind, are already an overwhelming mass; perhaps no one man will ever read them all. We might know the law of Edward's time in very minute detail; the more we know the less ready shall we be to say that there is anything unknowable. The practical limit set to our knowledge is not set by any lack of evidence, it is the limit of our leisure, our strength, our studiousness, our curiosity. Seven hundred years of judicial records, six hundred years of law reports; think how long a time seven centuries would be in the history of Roman Law.

Author : Joshua C. Tate
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300164718

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Power and Justice in Medieval England by Joshua C. Tate Pdf

How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy—an “advowson”—was one of the most important rights in medieval England. The king, the monasteries, and local landowners all wanted to control advowsons because they meant political, social, and economic influence. The question of law turned on who had the superior legal claim to the vacancy—which was a type of property—at the time the position needed to be filled. In tracing how these conflicts were resolved, Joshua C. Tate takes a sharply different view from that of historians who focus only on questions of land ownership, and he shows that the English needed new legal contours to address the questions of ownership and possession that arose from these disputes. Tate argues that the innovations made necessary by advowson law helped give birth to modern common law and common law courts.

Author : John Hostettler
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781906534790

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A History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales by John Hostettler Pdf

"An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today."-back cover.

Author : Cornelia Navari,Daniel Green
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781118624760

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Guide to the English School in International Studies by Cornelia Navari,Daniel Green Pdf

Bringing together the latest scholarship from a global group of expert contributors, this guide offers a comprehensive examination of the English School approach to the study of international relations. Explains the major ideas of the British Committee on International Relations, including the idea of and institutions connected to an international society, the emerging notion of world society, and order within international relations Describes the English School’s methods of analyzing themes, trends, and dilemmas Focuses on the historical and geographical expansion of international society, and particularly on the effects of colonization and imperialism Serves as an essential reference for students, researchers, and academics in international relations