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  • English Law Under Two Elizabeths

    The Late Tudor Legal World and the Present

    by Sir John Baker ...
    Series series The Hamlyn Lectures
    Comparative legal history is generally understood to involve the comparison of legal systems in different countries. This is an experiment in a different kind of comparison. The legal world of the first Elizabethans is separated from that of today by nearly half a millennium. But the past is not a wholly different country. The common law is still, in an organic sense, the same common law as it was ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI

    1483-1558

    by Sir John Baker ...
    Series series The Oxford History of the Laws of England Series isbn 0-19-961352-4
    This volume covers the years 1483-1558, a period of immense social, political, and intellectual changes, which profoundly affected the law and its workings. It first considers constitutional developments, and addresses the question of whether there was a rule of law under king Henry VIII. In a period of supposed despotism, and enhanced parliamentary power, protection of liberty was increasing and ... Read more

    $334.79 USD

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  • Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records

    A Guide for Family & Local Historians

    by Stuart A. Raymond ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A detailed handbook to the English and Welsh Quarter Sessions records, their background, and how they can be used by genealogists and historians.For over 500 years, between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Justices of the Peace were the embodiment of government for most of our ancestors. The records they and other county officials kept are invaluable sources for local and family ... Read more

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  • English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381

    A Transformation of Governance and Law

    by Robert C. Palmer ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Robert Palmer’s pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter. The Black Death killed one-third of the English population between 1348 and 1351. To preserve traditional society, the king’s government aggressively ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England

    by Christopher W. Brooks ...
    Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law

    From Antiquity to Modern Times

    Edited by Paul Brand, Joshua Getzler ...
    In this collection of essays, leading legal historians address significant topics in the history of judges and judging, with comparisons not only between British, American and Commonwealth experience, but also with the judiciary in civil law countries. It is not the law itself, but the process of law-making in courts that is the focus of inquiry. Contributors describe and analyse aspects of ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Law and Legal Process

    Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History

    Edited by Matthew Dyson, David Ibbetson ...
    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' ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216–1616

    by John Baker ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
    This new account of the influence of Magna Carta on the development of English public law is based largely on unpublished manuscripts. The story was discontinuous. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the charter was practically a spent force. Late-medieval law lectures gave no hint of its later importance, and even in the 1550s a commentary on Magna Carta by William Fleetwood was still ... Read more

    $57.39 USD

  • Reaction and Reconstruction in English Politics, 1832–1852

    by Norman Gash ...
    'It is a melancholy thought that as soon as reforms are put into practice, disillusionment enters the political scene...'Norman Gash's Ford Lectures, originally delivered at Oxford in 1964, address an era of reform that followed the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828, Catholic Emancipation in 1829, and the Reform Act of 1832. The history of this period has often focused on the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Entick v Carrington

    250 Years of the Rule of Law

    Edited by Adam Tomkins, Mr Paul F Scott ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law
    Entick v Carrington is one of the canons of English public law and in 2015 it is 250 years old. In 1762 the Earl of Halifax, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, despatched Nathan Carrington and three other of the King's messengers to John Entick's house in Stepney. They broke into his house, seizing his papers and causing significant damage. Why? Because he was said to have ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield

    by James Oldham ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    In the eighteenth century, the English common law courts laid the foundation that continues to support present-day Anglo-American law. Lord Mansfield, Chief Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, 1756–1788, was the dominant judicial force behind these developments. In this abridgment of his two-volume book, The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century, James ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504

    by P.R. Cavill ...
    Series series Oxford Historical Monographs
    P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand 'Whig' tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament; its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested ... Read more

    $131.39 USD