Lanterna Rally

Author: William Senior

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781331140474

Excerpt from Doctors' Commons and the Old Court of Admiralty: A Short History of the Civilians in England When a Doctor of Law, duly armed with the rescript of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Vicar-general, sought admission to the College of Advocates at Doctors' Commons, his ceremonial introduction took place first in the Court of Arches before the Dean, and only afterwards in the Court of Admiralty before the Judge - assuming, as was not always the case, that the two offices were filled by different persons. In the following pages the precedence thus formally given to the ecclesiastical side of Doctors' Commons has been purposely disregarded. In the first place, the part played by the doctors in foreign affairs, and in the development of maritime law, a field in which the Civilians for a long time showed the common law the way, seems a topic of wider interest than anything they did as Canonists: and secondly, the consideration of the position of the Canon lawyer as to jus commune ecclesiasticum after the Reformation leads straight to the still troubled waters of the controversy whether the Church in England before that period was a national church or only two provinces of the super-national Catholic one. For these reasons, and because the story of a bygone profession needs but a little book, I have dwelt mainly upon the work of the doctors in the maritime courts and in the diplomatic service of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.