Description:This book places before general historians the results of a legal approach to some of the most famous statutes of Edward I - notably Mortmain, De Donis, the statutes of Merchants, Quia Emptores and Quo Warranto - with illustrations of their practical working from cases reported in the Year Books. These statutes must necessarily be discussed with references to the broad issues of legal, political, and social policy during the reign, and so particular attention has been given to the place of legislation in a system of customary law, and to various aspects of feudalism such as liberties and franchises, the lord's formidable powers of distraining his tenants, the practical effect of some of the feudal incidents, the economic structure of the family as shown by the estates of dower, curtesy and fee-tail, and the statutory attempts to reconcile the feudal and family views of land law with the requirements of commerce.Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett (2 January 1897 – 14 February 1965 was a British legal historian who was the first ever chair of legal history at the London School of Economics. - WikipediaWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legislation of Edward I: The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1947. To get started finding Legislation of Edward I: The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1947, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
168
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Release
1970
ISBN
Legislation of Edward I: The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1947
Description: This book places before general historians the results of a legal approach to some of the most famous statutes of Edward I - notably Mortmain, De Donis, the statutes of Merchants, Quia Emptores and Quo Warranto - with illustrations of their practical working from cases reported in the Year Books. These statutes must necessarily be discussed with references to the broad issues of legal, political, and social policy during the reign, and so particular attention has been given to the place of legislation in a system of customary law, and to various aspects of feudalism such as liberties and franchises, the lord's formidable powers of distraining his tenants, the practical effect of some of the feudal incidents, the economic structure of the family as shown by the estates of dower, curtesy and fee-tail, and the statutory attempts to reconcile the feudal and family views of land law with the requirements of commerce.Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett (2 January 1897 – 14 February 1965 was a British legal historian who was the first ever chair of legal history at the London School of Economics. - WikipediaWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Legislation of Edward I: The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1947. To get started finding Legislation of Edward I: The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1947, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.