Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200-1900 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Godfrey, Mark

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316482094
• Artikelnr.: 52836235

Inhaltsangabe

1. The judicial interpretation of legislation in later thirteenth- and
early fourteenth-century England Paul Brand; 2. The authority of Parliament
and the scope of the Statute of Uses 1536 N. G. Jones; 3. Developing a
prerogative theory for the authority of the Chancery: the French connection
Ian Williams; 4. Authority and precedent David Ibbetson; 5. Legislation and
authority in early modern Scotland Andrew Simpson; 6. The sources of early
Scots consistorial law: reflections on law, authority and jurisdiction
during the Scottish Reformation Thomas Green; 7. Conciliar authority and
equitable jurisdiction in early modern Scotland J. D. Ford; 8. Legal
authorities as instruments of conflict management: the long endgame of
Anglo-Hanseatic relations (1474-1603) Alain Wijffels; 9. History and the
justification of governmental authority and individual rights in the age of
John Locke and Samuel Pufendorf Andreas Thier; 10. The commissioners for
claims on France and the case of the Baron de Bode, 1815-61 Michael Lobban;
11. The authority of law in a bureaucratic framework: the
nineteenth-century medicine stamp duty Chantal Stebbings; 12. The authority
of treatises in English law, 1800-1936 Stephen Waddams; 13. Maitland and
Austin: legal history and legal thought in the late nineteenth century John
Hudson.