Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England [Hardcover]

A study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation.This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation--the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267. It establishes the political and legal context of these statutes and examines the process of drafting them. It also utilises an exceptionally wide range of manuscript sources to show how the legislation was used and interpreted during the period to 1307. It is the first major work on any of the statutes in this period of major legislative change.This book is a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation--the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267. It establishes the political and legal context of these statutes and examines the process of drafting them. It also utilises an exceptionally wide range of manuscript sources to show how the legislation was used and interpreted during the period to 1307. It is the first major work on any of the statutes in this period of major legislative change.This book consists of a study of two important and related pieces of thirteenth-century English legislation--the Provisions of Westminster of 1259 and the Statute of Marlborough of 1267. In establishing the political and legal context of these statutes and examining the process of drafting them, the volume utilizes an exceptionally wide range of manuscript sources. Revealing how the legislation was used and interpreted up to 1307, it is the first major work on any of the statutes in this period of major legislative change.Introduction; Part I. Politics and the Legislative Reform of the Common Law: 1. The making of the Provisions of Westminster: the process of drafting and their political context; 2. The making of the Provisions of Westminster: the social and legal context and the evolution of the individual clauses (i); 3. The making of the ProvisionlS*