| Description |
xvi, 210 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Law and landscape -- Security -- Inheritance -- Disputes and transfer -- The use of law -- 2. Prehistoric to AD 43 -- First farmers -- Solving legal problems before we had law -- Dividing the landscape -- Iron Age -- 3. Roman -- AD 43 to 450 -- Imperium romanum -- The oldest known lawsuit -- Towns -- Countryside -- Late Roman Britain -- 4. Early Saxon -- 450 to 867 -- Many small kingdoms -- Local laws -- The Church -- Bookland -- The multiple estate -- Trade and communications -- 5. The Making of the Open Fields -- 867 to 1066 -- The Vikings -- Farming methods -- Growth of lordship and the local court -- The Fonthill case -- Organising landholdings -- 6. Norman -- 1066 to 1154 -- Tenure and royal demesne -- Military tenures -- The Church -- Manors and the Domesday Book -- Commercial holdings -- 7. Medieval Landholding -- 1154 to 1348 -- The rule of law -- Manor and waste -- Freeholds -- Ownership and the law of the land -- |
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Contents note continued: Corporate action -- 8. Courts, Charters and Statutes -- 1154 to 1348 -- Legal procedure -- Statutes and the king's charters -- Seigniorial revenues and the power of sale -- 9. Security and Property -- 1348 to 1660 -- Apparent continuity, underlying change -- Leases -- Commercial farming and investment -- Ejectment -- Consequences of security -- 10. Law and the King -- 1348 to 1660 -- Dissolution of the monasteries -- The Statute of Uses -- Property, state and sovereign -- 11. Landed Estates -- 1660 to 1900 -- Three types of estate -- The strict settlement -- Management and improvement -- Trustees -- End of the settlement -- 12. Enclosure and Inclosure -- 1660 to 1900 -- Private enclosure -- Rights over the land -- Inclosure Acts -- Inclosure awards -- 13. Roads, Canals and Railways -- 1660 to 1900 -- Works Acts -- Road Acts -- Turnpike trusts -- Canals and railways -- 14. Industry and Business -- 1660 to 1900 -- Mines -- Companies and commercial leases -- |
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Contents note continued: Pollution -- Workers' accommodation -- 15. Towns -- 1660 to 1900 -- Early towns -- Housing the middle classes -- Controlling the townscape -- Equipping the town -- 16. The Twentieth Century -- 1900 to 2000 -- Democracy and sovereignty -- The 1925 legislation -- The control of leaseholds -- State control of land -- 17. The Law of the Landscape Today -- Public access and conservation -- European and world law -- The state and the landowner -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"A Legal History of the English Landscape is an engaging account of how the law has played a pivotal role in shaping the English landscape through the ages. Adopting a broadly chronological approach, the book begins with prehistory and continues through Roman and Anglo-Saxon times. It examines the foundations of English land law as laid down by the Normans and developed throughout the Middle Ages. The author explores how landed property became seen as the focus of society by the seventeenth century and how ownership rights were protected to such an extent that they inhibited change. As society evolved, once-important laws became obsolete and the author shows how later generations were able to adapt or circumvent them for their own needs. The book describes how Parliament intervened to rearrange the landscape in the Enclosure Movement, authorised the building of roads, canals and railways and encouraged the development of industry and towns. The account concludes with a view of the modern law in an era of public access to land, environmental protection and European legislation. By setting land law in the wider context of changes in society, A Legal History of the English Landscape will appeal not just to lawyers and historians, but to the general reader with an interest in the English landscape"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- England -- History.
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Landscapes -- England -- History.
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Law -- England -- History.
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Law -- Great Britain -- History.
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| LC no. |
2011535079 |
| ISBN |
085490087X |
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9780854900879 |
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