Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England - Thomas Kebell: A Case Study

Klappentext The English common lawyers wielded their greatest influence in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung The English common lawyers wielded their greatest influence in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In these years they were more than the only organized lay profession: in the infancy of statute! they! more than anyone! shaped and changed the law; they were the managerial elite of the country; they were the single most dynamic group in society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Legal Profession: 1. The common lawyers in pre-Reformation England; 2. Social origins: the Kebells of Rearsby; 3. Training at the inns of court; 4. Professional advancement; Part II. Legal Practice: 5. The foundations of a legal practice; 6. The lawyer and his clients; 7. The lawyer and the year books; 8. Thomas Kebell as an advocate; Part III. The Lawyers and the Law: 9. The legal system; 10. The crown and the profession; 11. The interest of the state; 12. A changing community; Part IV. The Profession and Society: 13. The rewards of the profession: fees and payments; 14. The rewards of the profession: income and morality; 15. The rewards of the profession: the estates of Thomas Kebell; 16. The rewards of the profession: Humberstone Manor; 17. Social mobility: the Kebells of Humberstone; 18. Thomas Kebell and the pre-Reformation legal profession.

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• Authors: E. W. Ives, E. W. (University of Birmingham) Ives
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2008
• EAN: 9780521072588
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07258-8
• No. of pages: 568
• Series: Cambridge Studies in English L; Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; England, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Common Law, Private or civil law: general, Systems of law: common law, Private / Civil law: general works