Law and Legal Process (eBook, ePUB)

Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History
Redaktion: Dyson, Matthew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of papers from the Twentieth British Legal History Conference explores the relationship between substantive law and the way in which it actually worked. Instead of looking at what the courts said they were doing, it is concerned more with the reality of what was happening. To that end, the authors use a wide range of sources, from court records to merchants' diaries and lawyers' letters. The way in which the sources are used reflects the possibilities of legal historical research which are opening up in the twenty-first century, as large databases and digitised images - and even online auction sites - make it a practical possibility to do work at a level which was almost unthinkable only a short time ago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107502710
• Artikelnr.: 52855960

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'The hypostasis of prophecy': legal realism and legal history Charles
Donahue, Jr; 2. Chancery, the Justices and the making of new writs in
thirteenth-century England Paul Brand; 3. Copulative complexities: the
exception of adultery in medieval dower actions Gwen Seabourne; 4.
Arbitration and the legal profession in late medieval England Anthony
Musson; 5. Privileges and their application in the main English central
courts in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Susanne Jenks; 6. Trusts
litigation in chancery after the Statute of Uses: the first fifty years
Neil Jones; 7. The assessment of contractual damages at common law in the
late sixteenth century David Ibbetson; 8. The case of Joan Peterson:
witchcraft, family conflict, legal invention, and constitutional theory
Clive Holmes; 9. Criminal informations of the Attorneys-General in the
King's Bench from Egerton to North Henry Mares; 10. Lawyers, merchants, and
the law of contract in the long eighteenth century Warren Swain; 11.
Creditors and the Feme Covert James Oldham; 12. Legal process as reported
in correspondence John Baker; 13. Legal development in Victorian felony
trials Phil Handler; 14. Cutting the Gordian Knot? Arbitration and company
insolvency in the 1870s Michael Lobban; 15. 'Forty years on': the British
Legal History Conference, 1972-2011 Patrick Polden.