The Legal Framework of English Feudalism : The Maitland Lectures given in 1972 Paperback / softback
by S.F.C. Milsom
Part of the Cambridge Studies in English Legal History series
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Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land.
The received picture depends upon progressive assumptions: key words began with their later meanings; the law began with abstract ideas of property; a tenant's title to his tenement was never subject to his lord's control; the lord had no discretion, only the power to decide disputes according to external criteria; jurisdiction in that sense was all the lord lost as royal remedies developed; and all the tenant gained was better protection of unaltered rights.
It is a picture of procedural changes taking place against an unchanging background, with the feudal structure at the beginning almost as insubstantial as it was to be at the end.
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- Pages:220 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780521082839
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:220 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:14/10/2008
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- ISBN:9780521082839
