Author: Bryce Lyon
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Examines the period of the formation of the basic tenets of the British Constitution which form the basis for modern British and American government and legal tradition.
Author: Bryce Dale Lyon
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 671
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Author: Norman MacLaren Trenholme
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: Bryce Lyon
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 671
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Author: Goldwin Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Author: Alan Harding
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191543527
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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The state is the most powerful and contested of political ideas, loved for its promise of order but hated for its threat of coercion. In this broad-ranging new study, Alan Harding challenges the orthodoxy that there was no state in the Middle Ages, arguing instead that it was precisely then that the concept acquired its force. He explores how the word 'state' was used by medieval rulers and their ministers and connects the growth of the idea of the state with the development of systems for the administration of justice and the enforcement of peace. He shows how these systems provided new models for government from the centre, successfully in France and England but less so in Germany. The courts and legislation of French and English kings are described establishing public order, defining rights to property and liberty, and structuring commonwealths by 'estates'. In the final chapters the author reveals how the concept of the state was taken up by political commentators in the wars of the later Middle Ages and the Reformation Period, and how the law-based 'state of the king and the kingdom' was transformed into the politically dynamic 'modern state'.
Author: Helen Maud Cam
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Author: Frederic William Maitland
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584771488
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908. xxviii, 547 pp. Although Maitland never intended to publish these lectures, they have long been regarded as one of the best introductions to the English Constitution. Delivered in the winter of 1887 and spring of 1888, and edited and published in 1908 by one of Maitland's students, Herbert A.L. Fisher, they cover the period from 1066 to the end of the nineteenth century. Rather than a narrative historical format, they focus on describing the work of the constitution during five distinct moments in English history: 1307, 1509, 1625, 1702 and 1887. They provide an entry to some of the major concepts he later expounded in his seminal work written with Sir Frederick Pollock, The History of English Law. Widely considered the father of modern legal history, FREDERIC WILLIAM MAITLAND 1850-1906] was an English jurist and historian best known for The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I (1895), written with Sir Frederick Pollock. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge and studied at Lincoln's Inn, London. Maitland was called to the bar in1876 and practiced until 1884, when he became a reader in English law (1884) and professor (1888) at Cambridge. He founded the Selden Society in 1887. Hailed for his original outlook on history, his works had a profound influence on legal scholarship and remain important today.
Author: J. G. Bellamy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526388
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Professor Bellamy places the theory of treason in its political setting and analyses the part it played in the development of legal and political thought in this period. He pays particular attention to the Statute of Treason of 1352, an act with a notable effect on later constitutional history and which, in the opinion of Edward Coke, had a legal importance second only to that of Magna Carta. He traces the English law of treason to Roman and Germanic origins, and discusses the development of royal attitudes towards rebellion, the judicial procedures used to try and condemn suspected traitors, and the interaction of the law of treason and constitutional ideas.
Author: Elizabeth Papp Kamali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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Explores the role of criminal intent in constituting felony in the first two centuries of the English criminal trial jury.
