Title: Law in the city : proceedings of the seventeenth British Legal History Conference, London, 2005 /
Authors: Lewis, A. D. E.; Brand, Paul; Mitchell, Paul, 1972-
Publisher: Four Courts Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Law Great Britain History Congresses.; Town laws, Medieval Great Britain History Congresses.; Customary law Great Britain History Congresses.; Common law Great Britain History Congresses.; Law History Congresses; Town laws, Medieval History Congresses.; Customary law History Congresses.; Common law History Congresses.
Contents: The City and the common law : the contribution of London to modern English law / Penny Tucker -- Glanvill continued: a reassessment / Sarah Tullis -- Consanguinity and the common law : "idle ingenuities" in Bracton / Samantha Worby -- The making of English thirteenth-century legislation : some new evidence / Paul Brand -- Thirteenth-century legislation on mortmain alienations in Flanders and its influence upon France and England / Dirk Heirbaut -- Feodo de compedibus vocato le sewet : the medieval prison "oeconomy" / Jonathan Rose -- The trust beneficiary's interest before R. v. Holland / N.G. Jones -- Localism v. centralism : tensions in the administration of tax in nineteenth-century England and America / Chantal Stebbings.