On the laws and customs of England : essays in honor of Samuel E. Thorne

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Edition Details

Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Samuel Edmund Thorne, Morris S. Arnold
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): North Carolina
Publication Information: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1981
Publication Type (Medium): History
Material: Internet resource
Type: Book, Internet Resource
Series title: Studies in legal history.
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Online version: On the laws and customs of England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ©1981 (OCoLC)562952178 Online version: On the laws and customs of England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, ©1981 (OCoLC)607914178

Short Description

XX, 426 pages ; 24 cm.

Purpose and Intended Audience

Useful for students learning an area of law, On the laws and customs of England : essays in honor of Samuel E. Thorne is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Responsable Person: edited by Morris S. Arnold [and others].
Publication Date: 1981
Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.
Country/State: North Carolina
Number of Editions: 7 editions
First edition Date: 1981
Last edition Date: 1981
General Notes: Includes indexes.
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KD606
Dewey Code: 349.41
ISBN: 0807814342 9780807814345
OCLC: 6142569

Main Contents

Simpson, A.W.B. The laws of 5, Ethelbert.–Tabuteau, E.Z. Definitions of feudal military obligations in eleventh-century Normandy.–Milsom, S.F.C. Inheritance by women in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.–Hyams, P.R. Trial by ordeal: the key to proof in the early common law.–Donahue, C. Proof by witnesses in the Church courts of medieval England: an imperfect reception of the learned law.–Beckerman, J.S. Adding insult to iniuria: affronts to honor and the origins of trespass.–Sutherland, D.W. Legal reasoning in the fourteenth century: the invention of “color” in pleading.–Gray, C. Plucknett’s “Lancastrian constitution.”–Garrett-Goodyear, H. The Tudor revival of quo warranto, and local contributions to state building.–Ives, E.W. Crime, sanctuary, and royal authority under Henry VIII: the exemplary sufferings of the savage family.–Barton, J.L. Future interests and royal revenues in the sixteenth century.–Baker, J.H. Origins of the “doctrine” of consideration, 1535-1585.–Barnes, T.G.A Cheshire seductress, precedent, and a “sore blow” to Star Chamber.–Yale, D.E.C. “Of no mean authority”: some later uses of Bracton.

On the laws and customs of England : essays in honor of Samuel E. Thorne

On the laws and customs of England : essays in honor of Samuel E. Thorne