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Title On the laws and customs of England : essays in honor of Samuel E. Thorne / edited by Morris S. Arnold, Thomas A. Green, Sally A. Scully, and Stephen D. White
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [1981]
©1981

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 426 pages)
Series UNC Press enduring editions
Studies in legal history
Studies in legal history.
UNC Press enduring editions.
Contents The laws of Ethelbert / A.W.B. Simpson -- Definitions of feudal military obligations in eleventh-century Normandy / Emily Zack Tabuteau -- Inheritance by women in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries / S.F.C. Milsom -- Trial by ordeal: the key to proof in the early common law / Paul R. Hyams -- Proof by witnesses in the church courts of medieval England: an imperfect reception of the learned law / Charles Donahue, Jr. -- Adding insult to iniuria: affronts to honor and the origins of trespass / John S. Beckerman -- Legal reasoning in the fourteenth century: the invention of "color" in pleading / Donald W. Sutherland -- Plucknett's "Lancastrian constitution" / Charles M. Gray -- The Tudor revival of quo warranto and local contributions to state building / Harold Garrett-Goodyear -- Crime, sanctuary, and royal authority under Henry VIII: the exemplary sufferings of the savage family / E.W. Ives -- Future interests and royal revenues in the sixteenth century / J.L. Barton -- Origins of the "doctrine" of consideration, 1535-1585 / J.H. Baker -- A Cheshire seductress, precedent, and a "sore blow" to Star Chamber / Thomas G. Barnes -- "Of no mean authority": some later uses of Bracton / D.E.C. Yale -- Bibliography of Samuel E. Thorne
Bibliography "Bibliography of Samuel E. Thorne": pages 397-398
Notes Includes indexes
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Subject Thorne, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1907-1994.
SUBJECT Thorne, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1907-1994 fast
Subject Law -- England -- History
Customary law -- Great Britain
Customary law
Law
Rechtsgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Thorne, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1907-1994, dedicatee.
Arnold, Morris S., editor.
Green, Thomas Andrew, editor.
Scully, Sally A., editor
White, Stephen D., 1945- editor.
ISBN 1469610035
9781469610030
Other Titles Laws and customs of England
Essays in honor of Samuel E. Thorne