Communities & Courts in Britain, 1150-1900 [Hardcover]

The essays inCommunities and Courts in Britain, 1150-1900all reflect the wider concept of legal history - how legal processes fitted into the social and political life of the community and how courts and other legal processes were used by contemporaries. In doing so they aim both to justify the study of legal history in its own right and to show how legal records, including those of a variety of central and local courts, can be used to further our understanding of a wide range of social, commercial, popular and political history.

Thomas Glyn Watkin The Political Philosophy of the Lord King; Hector L. Macqueen Linguistic Communities in Medieval Scots Law, Penny Tucker London's Courts of Law in the Fifteenth Century: The Litigants' Perspective; Christopher Harrison Manor Courts and the Governance of Tudor England; Martin Ingram Juridical Folklore in England Illustrated by Rough Music, Elizabeth M.E Wells Civil Litigation in the High Court of Admiraly, 1585-95; N.G Jones The Influence of Revenue Considerations upon the Remedial Practice of Chancery in Trust Cases, 1536-1660; Mike Macnair Common Law and Statutory Imitations of Equitable Relief under the Later Stuarts, Lloyd Bonfield Testamentary Causes in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1660-96; Craig Muldrew Rural Credit, Market Areas and Legal Institutions in the Countryside in England, 1550-1700; WA. Champion Recourse to Law and the Meaning of the Great Litigation Dealine, 1650-1750; Joshua Getzler Judges and Hunters: Law and Economic Conflict in the English Countryside 1800-60; R.W. Ireland Child Death and the Law in Victorian Carmarthenshire; Patrick Polden Judiaal Selkirks: The County CourtJudges and the Press, 1847-80.