Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200–1900
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Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200–1900

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Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200–1900

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By presenting original research into British legal history, this volume emphasises the historical shaping of the law by ideas of authority. The essays offer perspectives upon the way that ideas of authority underpinned the conceptualisation and interpretation of legal sources over time and became embedded in legal institutions. The contributors explore the basis of the authority of particular sources of law, such as legislation or court judgments, and highlight how this was affected by shifting ideas relating to concepts of sovereignty, religion, political legitimacy, the nature of law, equity and judicial interpretation. The analysis also encompasses ideas of authority which influenced the development of courts, remedies and jurisdictions, international aspects of legal authority when questions of foreign law or jurisdiction arose in British courts, the wider authority of systems of legal ideas such as natural law, the authority of legal treatises, and the relationship between history, law and legal thought.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781107122277
eBook ISBN
9781316485101
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Preface
  9. 1 The judicial interpretation of legislation in later thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England
  10. 2 The authority of parliament and the scope of the Statute of Uses 1536
  11. 3 Developing a prerogative theory for the authority of the Chancery: the French connection
  12. 4 Authority and precedent
  13. 5 Legislation and authority in early-modern Scotland
  14. 6 The sources of early Scots consistorial law: reflections on law, authority and jurisdiction during the Scottish Reformation
  15. 7 Conciliar authority and equitable jurisdiction in early-modern Scotland
  16. 8 Legal authorities as instruments of conflict management: the long endgame of Anglo-Hanseatic relations (1474-1603)
  17. 9 History and the justification of governmental authority and individual rights in the age of John Locke and Samuel Pufendorf
  18. 10 The commissioners for claims on France and the case of the Baron de Bode, 1815-1861
  19. 11 The authority of law in a bureaucratic framework: the nineteenth-century medicine stamp duty
  20. 12 The authority of treatises in English law (1800-1936)
  21. 13 Maitland and Austin: legal history and legal thought in the late nineteenth century
  22. Index