Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860 - 1500-1860

Informationen zum Autor Late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Klappentext The first history of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in England that covers the period up to the removal of principal subjects inherited from the Middle Ages. Probate! marriage and divorce! tithes! defamation! and disciplinary prosecutions involving the laity are all covered. All disappeared from the church's courts during the mid-nineteenth century! and were taken over by the royal courts. The book traces the steps and reasons - large and small - by which this occurred. Zusammenfassung This book does what no other does - tracing the history of the growth and then the slow disappearance of an important source of English law and social regulation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations; Table of parliamentary statutes; 1. The ecclesiastical courts: structures and procedures; 2. The business of the courts, 1500-1640; 3. Tithe causes; 4. Wills and testamentary causes; 5. Defamation; 6. Matrimonial litigation and marriage licenses; 7. Office causes; 8. The roots of expansion and critical voices; 9. Charting decline, 1640-1830; 10. Explaining decline; 11. The Bills of 1733-1734; 12. Snips and repairs: small steps to reform, 1753-1813; 13. Royal commissions and early fruits, 1815-1832; 14. Reform frustrated; 15. Reforms thick and fast, 1854-1860.

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• Authors: R. B. Outhwaite, R. B. (University of Cambridge) Outhwaite, Richard B. Outhwaite
• Assisted by: Helmholz Richard H. (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.01.2007
• EAN: 9780521869386
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86938-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Cambridge Studies in English L; Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; England, European History, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Legal History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Educational: History, Systems of law: ecclesiastical (canon) law