E. W. Ives

The Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England

Thomas Kebell: A Case Study

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The English common lawyers wielded their greatest influence in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9780521072588
• ISBN-10: 0521072581
• Artikelnr.: 24553087

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Legal Profession: 1. The common lawyers in pre-Reformation England
2. Social origins: the Kebells of Rearsby
3. Training at the inns of court
4. Professional advancement
Part II. Legal Practice: 5. The foundations of a legal practice
6. The lawyer and his clients
7. The lawyer and the year books
8. Thomas Kebell as an advocate
Part III. The Lawyers and the Law: 9. The legal system
10. The crown and the profession
11. The interest of the state
12. A changing community
Part IV. The Profession and Society: 13. The rewards of the profession: fees and payments
14. The rewards of the profession: income and morality
15. The rewards of the profession: the estates of Thomas Kebell
16. The rewards of the profession: Humberstone Manor
17. Social mobility: the Kebells of Humberstone
18. Thomas Kebell and the pre-Reformation legal profession.