Law and social change in British history : papers presented to the Bristol Legal History Conference, 14 - 17 July 1981 / edited by J.A. Guy and H.G. Beale.

London: Royal Historical Society, 1984.

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Introduction; The litigation between John Marshal and Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1164: a pointer to the origin of novel disseisin?; The idea of the corporation in western Cristendom before 1300; The great lord as peacekeeper: arbitration by English noblemen and their councils in the later middle ages; The role of the criminal appeal in the fifteenth century; Social change and Tudor manorial leets; Fine tuning the Reformation; West's Symboleography: an Elizabethan formulary; Statutory interpretation in the early seventeenth century: the courts, the council, and the commissioners of sewers; The Northhampton fire court; The law of strikes, 1847-1871; Liability for things in the nineteenth century; The prisoner in the box - the making of the Criminal Evidence Act, 1898; Index.

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