English Legal History and its Materials

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WilliamPennTrial 02 Jan 2020 - 18:42 DaihuiMeng
On William Penn's trial Clerk. Bring William Penn and William Mead to the bar. Mayor. Sirrah, who bid you put off their hats? put on their hats again. Obser ...
OnWitchraft 21 Dec 2019 - 00:33 IsraelRodriguezRubio
The Community's Peace: Witchcraft, Popular Culture, and the Law during the Early Modern Period #8220; I n the case of Witch Craft many things are very difficult ...
WebHome 06 Sep 2019 - 12:58 EbenMoglen
English Legal History From Friday 6 September, we will meet in JGH 642 rather than 107. Please register as a user of this wiki. You are responsible for reading ...
WebNotify 04 Sep 2019 - 21:12 IsraelRodriguezRubio
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JustinMaffettFirstPaper 30 Apr 2018 - 19:29 JustinMaffett
English Law Came From Somewhere, And It Wasn't God You might want one. By JustinMaffett 28 Nov 2017 "English" law in fact is not English at its origins ...
LukeRushingThirdPaper 15 Apr 2018 - 22:03 LukeRushing
Topic The broad powers of juries, judges, and the king to individualize the administration of criminal justice in England supports Beatty #8217;s assertion that capital ...
LukeRushingSecondPaper 15 Apr 2018 - 16:29 LukeRushing
I. Introduction Through contingency, the disempowered in England were able to transform unfreedom into freedom by unifying their might to usurp some power from the ...
LukeRushingFirstPaper 14 Apr 2018 - 21:00 LukeRushing
I) Introduction The #8220;Englishry of English law #8221; is a result of its diversity of origin, but the origins don #8217;t tell the complete story. England #8217 ...
JoeBrunerPrivilegeofTheBox 09 Apr 2018 - 02:01 JoeBruner
This was originally planned as two 1000 word essays. Putting everything on one page seems more appropriate because there is one central theme. Part One: The Rise ...
MattConroyFirstPaper 06 Apr 2018 - 21:29 MattConroy
Englishery of English Law By MattConroy 06 Apr 2018 As an analytical framework arguing that the diversity of origins formed the unique character of English Law ...
DexterXHeeterSecondPaper 06 Apr 2018 - 20:05 DexterXHeeter
"But with the First Gleam of Dawn" (Revision) The Unfreedom of People The freedom of people was created through a contingency caused by a decrease in the worker ...
DexterXHeeterFirstPaper 06 Apr 2018 - 19:57 DexterXHeeter
A Land Not of a Single Peace but of Many (Revision) A. Harding wrote, #8220;England was not a land of a single peace but of many, #8221; (Harding 15) alluding to ...
MattConroySecondPaper 06 Apr 2018 - 19:56 MattConroy
Contingency By MattConroy 06 Apr 2018 Unfreedom did not transform into freedom over the course of the English Law by contingency only. Contingency played a major ...
MalcolmEvansFirstPaper 06 Apr 2018 - 18:24 MalcolmEvans
The Englishry of English law in the age of trumpism By MalcolmEvans Introduction "The Englishry of English law" lies precisely in its diversity of origin. While ...
RhickBoseSecondPaper 02 Apr 2018 - 01:21 RhickBose
One damned contingency after the other By RhickBose 01 Apr 2018 Introduction #8220;Power concedes nothing without a demand. #8221; Frederick Douglass, If There ...
RyanHolmesSecondPaper 27 Mar 2018 - 17:21 RyanHolmes
Hello Professor, The actual first draft of my second paper (the contingency paper) was accidentally submitted under the heading for my First Paper in late December ...
TWikiGuestFirstPaper 27 Mar 2018 - 15:52 LukeRushing
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
SecondPaper 27 Mar 2018 - 00:01 EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Subject Unfreedom of both people and property transformed into freedom in the history of English ...
TWikiGuestSecondPaper 26 Dec 2017 - 20:06 JustinMaffett
Unfreedom and the Black Death By Justin Maffett The Black Death was a pivotal moment in English legal history, having ushered in a wave of economic and social changes ...
AudreyLaryeaSecondPaper 23 Dec 2017 - 01:31 AudreyLaryea
AudreyLaryea 22 Dec 2017 Freedom Through Struggle The history of freedom is the history of struggle, wherein contingencies that create struggle create freedom. Freedom ...
RyanHolmesFirstPaper 22 Dec 2017 - 18:37 RyanHolmes
The Englishry of the English Law Ryan Holmes 28 Nov 2017 Section I The Englishry of the English law owes a great deal to the diverse traditions that contributed ...
FirstPaper 14 Nov 2017 - 13:48 EbenMoglen
Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Subject What Maitland called "the Englishry of English law" lies precisely in its diversity of ...
GuardianshipAndEnglishCommonLaw 16 Oct 2017 - 06:53 MalcolmEvans
I came across article today in the New Yorker about legal guardians and elder abuse. One thing I found interesting is that the article attributes the guardianship ...
ProcedureofStarChamber 20 Jan 2015 - 00:09 MichaelCoburn
Procedure Bill of Information A written complaint alleging an offense punishable by the Court that was signed by private party's counsel or the attorney general ...
FunctionalExplanationsOfOrdeal 16 Jan 2015 - 15:37 AlexanderGerten
Functionalist Explanations for the Persistence and Withering of the Ordeal Is it? Functionalism is probably more discredited now among anthropologists than ...
WritOfProhibition 09 Jan 2015 - 14:00 KatherineKettle
WORKING UNITED DRAFT: The writs of Prohibition were the main means by which the managing common law courts the King's Bench and Common Pleas restricted other courts ...
TheExchequerOfTheJews 05 Jan 2015 - 21:27 EbenMoglen
EXCHEQUER OF THE JEWS Background : Jews began to settle in England soon after the Norman Conquest in 1066. They for the most part escaped the massacres during the ...
TheNon-ReceptionInEngland 17 Dec 2014 - 18:24 JulianAzran
The text of this page authored by Julian Azran and Ignacio Menchaca is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike ...
StatuteofLabourers 03 Dec 2014 - 03:21 AllysonMackavage
Palmer goes into great detail on how the massive depopulation during the Black Death led to the passage the Statute of Labourers and how it was used to force the able ...
TheReceptionInEnglishdRenaissance 21 Nov 2014 - 22:15 JulianAzran
The Reception, a process in the renaissance of replacement of "barbarian" medieval customary law by classical roman law 1 , was occurring during the renaissance ...
MoralityOfPenalBonds 02 Nov 2014 - 14:57 JimParks
In his book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, anthropologist David Graeber traces the history of debt and its relationship with and effect on human societies. Among other ...
InquistioninMedievalEngland 16 Oct 2014 - 06:09 AshleighHunt
In Chapter 8 (pg. 126) Baker discusses the Ecclesiastic Courts in England that covered crimes committed by the Clergy, marriage and probate law. However, Baker makes ...
TheStatuteOfNorthampton 07 Oct 2014 - 01:06 KatherineKettle
In his book "Concise History", Plucknett reviews several historical changes that were the reason to the beginning disappearance of judges' discretion during the 12 ...
PeasantsRevoltInEnglishLaw 27 Sep 2014 - 19:48 InbarAsif
Palmer writes about how the increased centralization and intrusiveness of the government helped motivate the great Peasants' Revolt of 1381. (pg. 6) He writes specifically ...
BurdenOfTaxation 16 Sep 2014 - 13:35 FrancisWhite
In the reading it's seems to me that there was an ongoing connection between the rise and fall of different ancient jurisdictions and courts, to the enhancement of ...
PropertyInMedievalLaw 16 Sep 2014 - 07:52 JimParks
Plunkett writes on pg. 141 "It was also a peculiarity of feudalism that these matters of public law #8212; the prerogative of the Crown, the rights and duties of ...
ConsistencyInMedievalCourts 11 Sep 2014 - 16:21 MichaelCoburn
For the reading this week I was struck by the vast number of courts with overlapping jurisdictions that existed in Medieval England and how independent and in competition ...
SignificanceofDomesdayBook 10 Sep 2014 - 03:02 AllysonMackavage
Plunkett on pg. 12 writes that the Domesday Book was "so respected that it was called simply 'the record', so great was its authority." I was wondering how the Domesday ...
RomanLaw 08 Sep 2014 - 15:11 EbenMoglen
This is not a question. You've started an essay on very complex and indeterminate issues, for which you've collected (irresponsibly) a good deal of secondary ...
HundredMoot 04 Sep 2014 - 14:12 EbenMoglen
While reading Baker's Introduction to English Legal History I ran across the term "The Moot" (p.4 Yeah, i takes me a while to read and understand these new history ...
WebTopicCreator 04 Sep 2014 - 14:02 RinaFujii
QuestionsBeingAnswered 23 Aug 2014 - 21:47 EbenMoglen
Questions To ask a new question, create a topic, using a descriptive topic name that identifies the subject of the question. The topic's parent should be "QuestionsBeingAnswered ...
TimeLine 23 Aug 2014 - 20:40 EbenMoglen
A page for a timeline of dates. Please link to further pages for more reading, rather than adding too much detail in this page. See also LawBooks 1000s Post 1066 ...
PlacesAndCourts 23 Aug 2014 - 20:40 EbenMoglen
Places and Courts original structure: County Hundred Tithing Ville Post Norman, you also get the feudal/military tenure system, superimposed on the older system ...
LawBooks 23 Aug 2014 - 20:38 EbenMoglen
Leges Henrici Primi (c. 1118) Collection of "ill digested Anglo Saxon laws with scraps of Canon law and personal observations" from the fifty or so years following ...
Glossary 23 Aug 2014 - 20:38 EbenMoglen
A page for a glossary of terms. Please link to further reading where appropriate, or to a blank page where more research is appropriate but not yet done. For Old English ...
CriminalProcedureRules 23 Aug 2014 - 20:37 EbenMoglen
Yesterday in class one of the more startling things (at least for me) was that there was no right of appeal from a criminal conviction in the English legal system ...
CommonRecovery 23 Aug 2014 - 20:37 EbenMoglen
BeckyPrebble 21 Oct 2008 How was it that the common recovery was so effective? From today's perspective (which I realize is entirely the wrong way to look at it) ...
ArchivedMaterial 23 Aug 2014 - 20:36 EbenMoglen
FinishedArticles 23 Aug 2014 - 20:30 EbenMoglen
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