Communities and courts in Britain, 1150-1900 / edited by Christopher Brooks and Michael Lobban

London: Hambledon Press, 1997.

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Law -- History -- Congresses.

Punishment -- History.

Equity pleading and procedure.

Common law.

Customary law.

1. The political philosophy of the lord king; 2. Linguistic communities in medieval Scots law; 3. London's courts of law in the fifteenth century: the litigants' perspective; 4. Manor courts and the governance of Tudor England; 5. Juridical folklore in England illustrated by rough music; 6. Civil litigation in the High Court of Admiralty, 1585-95; 7. The influence of revenue considerations upon the remedial practice of chancery in trust cases, 1536-1660; 8. Common law and statutory imitations of equitable relief under the later Stuarts; 9. Testamentary causes in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1660-96; 10. Rural credit, market areas and legal institutions in the countryside in England, 1550-1700; 11. Recourse to law and the meaning of the great litigation decline, 1650-1750: some clues from the Shrewsbury local courts; 12. Judges and hunters: law and economic conflict in the English countryside, 1800-60; 13. 'Perhaps my mother murdered me': child death and the law in Victorian Carmarthenshire; 14. Judicial selkirks: the county court judges and the press, 1847-80.

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