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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786906603321

Titolo

Communities and courts in Britain, 1150-1900 / / editors, Christopher Brooks, Michael Lobban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Rio Grande, Ohio : , : Hambledon Press, , 1997

ISBN

1-4725-9879-2

1-4411-8001-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

347.41/01

Soggetti

Courts - Great Britain - History

Law - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Volume of essays arising from the 12th British Legal History Conference, which was held at Durham Castle on the 19th-22nd July 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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; 14 Judicial Selkirks: The County Court Judges and the Press, 1847-80

Sommario/riassunto

"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 study of legal history in its own right and to show how  legal records, including those of a variety of central and local courts, can be used to further our understanding of a wide range of social, commercial, popular and political history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.