UID:
almafu_9960119463702883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-08520-4
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0-511-56124-5
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in English legal history
Content:
Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land. The received picture depends upon progressive assumptions: key words began with their later meanings; the law began with abstract ideas of property; a tenant's title to his tenement was never subject to his lord's control; the lord had no discretion, only the power to decide disputes according to external criteria; jurisdiction in that sense was all the lord lost as royal remedies developed; and all the tenant gained was better protection of unaltered rights. It is a picture of procedural changes taking place against an unchanging background, with the feudal structure at the beginning almost as insubstantial as it was to be at the end.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Disciplinary jurisdiction -- Proprietary ideas -- Proprietary jurisdiction -- Grants -- Inheritance.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-08283-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-20947-1
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511561245
