The ecclesiastical courts : structures and procedures -- The business of the courts, 1500-1640 -- Tithe causes -- Wills and testamentary causes -- Defamation suits -- Matrimonial suits and marriage licenses -- Office causes -- The roots of expansion and critical voices -- Charting decline, 1640-1830 -- Explaining decline -- The bills of 1733-1734 -- Snips and repairs : small steps to reform, 1753-1813 -- Royal commissions and early fruits, 1815-1832 -- Reform frustrated -- Reforms thick and fast, 1854-1860
Summary
Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-185) and index
Notes
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SUBJECT
Anglikanische Kirche -- Kirchliche Gerichtsbarkeit -- England -- Geschichte -- 1500-1860. idszbz
