Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth The ''Lower Branch'' of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England

Zusammenfassung This work charts the massive sixteenth-century increase in central court litigation and offers an explanation of it largely in terms of social change and the decline of local jurisdictions. At the same time! it argues that the period witnessed a major turning point in the relationship between the legal profession and English society. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables and figures; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Lawyers and the royal courts in London during the reign of Elizabeth; 3. The legal profession in the provinces; 4. The increase in litigation; 5. The causes of the increase in litigation; 6. The increase in litigation and the legal profession; 7. The attitudes of layman and attempts at reform; 8. Clerkship, the inns of chancery, and legal education; 9. Private practice; 10. Public office and politics; 11. Fees and income; 12. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: C. W. Brooks, C.w. Brooks
• Assisted by: John H. Baker (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 24.06.2004
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law
• EAN: 9780521890830
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89083-0
• Pages: 412
• Series: Cambridge Studies in English L