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Judges, Administrators & Common Law

Judges, Administrators & Common Law

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral LawGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 185285104X
ISBN13: 9781852851040
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Nov 1 2003
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.38
Language: English

This collection of essays brings together the author's work on th growth of administrative monarchy in Angevin England, concentrating upon the personnnel of royal government and especially upon the common law courts. It describes the institutions of the English common law during its formative period, including the growth of the jury and of the two central courts, Common Pleas at Westminster and the court following the king, later King's Bench. Another group of essays illustrate the justices' handling of cases coming before the law courts, examining please that touched the king's interest. After a discussion of the authorship of England's first great lawbook, Glanvill, other essays examine the justices, their level of literacy, the conflicts facing the clerics among them in hearing secular cases, and the hostility that they aroused as 'new men' in the king's service from conservative elements in society.

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Turner, Ralph V.

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General Political Science