Lanterna Rally

Author: Paul Vinogradoff

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-13

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780332730707

Excerpt from Oxford Studies in Social and Legal History, Vol. 6: XI. Studies in the Hundred Rolls Some Aspects of Thirteenth-Century Administration; XII. Proceedings Against the Crown (1216 1377) The two monographs of the present volume are closely connected: they illustrate the two aspects of the Constitutional development of England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The inquests as to misdoings Of Officers and. Encroachments on public rights Show the insistence of the Crown In its efforts to keep order and to suppress administra tive abuses. But this very insistence was a source of hardship and gave rise to constant grievances, because the King and his ministers were apt to brush away established customs and to exert arbitrary despotism on the pretext of enforcing discipline and serving the interests of the Community. A strong opposition to such high-handed acts was manifested on many occasions, and found an appropriate basis in the juridical conceptions and traditions of feudal society - a society which looked upon convention and custom as the ruling principles of the law. Dr. Ehrlich traces the influence of this peculiar legalism in the early history of Proceedings against the Crown, and shows that the contradictory statements of Bracton's treatise are connected with different ten dencies in the actual practice of the law. 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.