LEADER 03670nam 22006015 450 001 9910659488203321 005 20230220071402.0 010 $a3-031-14517-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-14517-9 035 $a(CKB)5710000000110603 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7204024 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7204024 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-14517-9 035 $a(OCoLC)1373349963 035 $a(EXLCZ)995710000000110603 100 $a20230211d2023 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWarranty Obligations in Western France, 1040?1270$b[electronic resource] $eLaw, Custom, and Lordship /$fby M.W McHaffie 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (140 pages) 311 $a3-031-14516-X 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Warranty in the Coutumes d?Anjou et Maine -- .3 Warranty in the Charters -- 4. Giving Warranty: Acts and Actors -- 5. Warranty, Litigation, and Compensation -- 6. Securing the Present and the Future: The Targets of Warranty -- 7. Conclusions. 330 $aThis open access book examines warranty obligations in western France during the central Middle Ages. Warranty refers to the commitments that an individual undertook when alienating property to protect the transfer from outside challenge, and to provide compensation if they failed to defend a transaction successfully. The subject has never received a full-length study before, meaning that scholars? interpretation of warranty is marred by a number of untested generalisations. Warranty has generally only been viewed as a thirteenth-century development owing to the influence of Roman law and changes in family structure. This book, therefore, considers the evidence for warranty in western France en masse, starting with the first appearance of warranty clauses in documents in the 1040s up until the compilation of vernacular lawbooks in the 1270s. This book opens a window onto legal practice in the central Middle Ages, raising questions about wider processes of legal change. It emphasises the importance of lordship, in particular, when it comes to making sense of how and why warranty obligations developed the way they did. It thus challenges the prevailing explanatory narratives invoked by scholars when discussing warranty, and invites us to ask questions about the sorts of stories we tell when looking at legal change. Combining documentary and prescriptive lawbooks, along with a rich corpus of case material, this book offers a comprehensive account of a little-studied phenomenon, one that can elucidate much larger interpretative questions that are central to French legal history. 606 $aLaw?History 606 $aEurope?History?476-1492 606 $aFrance?History 606 $aSocial history 606 $aLegal History 606 $aHistory of Medieval Europe 606 $aHistory of France 606 $aSocial History 615 0$aLaw?History. 615 0$aEurope?History?476-1492. 615 0$aFrance?History. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 14$aLegal History. 615 24$aHistory of Medieval Europe. 615 24$aHistory of France. 615 24$aSocial History. 676 $a340.5 700 $aMcHaffie$b M. W$01338743 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910659488203321 996 $aWarranty Obligations in Western France, 1040?1270$93337177 997 $aUNINA