On the laws and customs of England
Subtitle: essays in honor of Samuel E. Thorne
By: edited by Morris S. Arnold ... [et al.].
Contributors: Thorne, Samuel Edmund, 1907-; Arnold, Morris S.
Series: Studies in legal history
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Thorne, Samuel Edmund, 1907-; Law -- History.; Customary law -- Great Britain -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Bibliography of Samuel E. Thorne": p. 397-398.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Simpson, A. W. B. The laws of 5, Ethelbert.; title: Tabuteau, E.Z. Definitions of feudal military obligations in eleventh-century Normandy.; title: Milsom, S. F. C. Inheritance by women in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.; title: Hyams, P. R. Trial by ordeal: the key to proof in the early common law.; title: Donahue, C. Proof by witnesses in the Church courts of medieval England: an imperfect reception of the learned law.; title: Beckerman, J. S. Adding insult to iniuria: affronts to honor and the origins of trespass.; title: Sutherland, D. W. Legal reasoning in the fourteenth century: the invention of "color" in pleading.; title: Gray, C. Plucknett's "Lancastrian constitution."; title: Garrett-Goodyear, H. The Tudor revival of quo warranto, and local contributions to state building.; title: Ives, E. W. Crime, sanctuary, and royal authority under Henry VIII: the exemplary sufferings of the savage family.; title: Barton, J. L. Future interests and royal revenues in the sixteenth century.; title: Baker, J. H. Origins of the "doctrine" of consideration, 1535-1585.; title: Barnes, T.G. A Cheshire seductress, precedent, and a "sore blow" to Star Chamber.; title: Yale, D. E. C. "Of no mean authority": some later uses of Bracton.