Armorie v. Delamirie I would also like to work on this topic. Carol DeMartino I'll take this topic. Anyone interested in collaborating, let me know, thanks. Alex ...
Assizes Courts sitting regionally, on circuit. Can try felonies, but hence are always required to have one of the 10 (later 12) judges of King's Bench , Common ...
Common name of De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ("The Laws and Customs of England"), the first significant English legal text. The text (in Latin, with an English ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lane v. Cotton What is the context and contemporary significance of Lane v. Cotton , 1 Ld. Raym 546 (1701)? Why is it relevant to the law of Internet infrastructure ...
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 ...
Magna Carta 1215 Includes, among other things, essentially jurisdictional rules saying that jurisdiction can't move from the courts of the nobles to the Common Pleas ...
Mitchell v. Allestry This case, materials collected at B M 572, was seen in the 18th and 19th centuries as inventing what American lawyers took Lemuel Shaw to have ...
Origin of the Writ of Certiorari I'd like to work on this if no one else is; alternatively I'd do the Statute of Labourers 1351 Theo TheodorBruening 11 Nov 2008 ...
Origins of the Peremptory Challenge Here is a message from a colleague: My name is . I'm student from Law Faculty, in Poland. I write in the hope that You can answer ...
How to Do the Exercises Below are the source based exercise topics for you to choose from. I expect to add more topics shortly, as soon as I finish checking them ...
Perjurious Wager What happens if a plaintiff complains to the church courts of the perjury when a defendant falsely wages his law? I'll take this one Chris
Places and Courts original structure: County Hundred Tithing Ville Post Norman, you also get the feudal/military tenure system, superimposed on the older system ...
Political Refugees' Property I'd like this topic. Becky The most celebrated political refugee from the reign of Mary Tudor seems to have been Katherine Willoughby ...
Southcote's Case Why is Southcote's Case, 4 Co. Rep. 83b; Cro. Eliz. 815 (1601)? The rule never appealed to anyone before or since, as no one has ever tried to disturb ...
Labor Policy after 1348 and Theory of Contract How did the Statute of Laborers of 1351 contribute to the development of assumpsit as a replacement for covenant and ...
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 ...
Is there much difference between the interest of an heir apparent in an estate in fee tail and a remainderman? They seem to me to be pretty much the same thing, except ...
English Legal History its Materials This wiki is for historical documents, student annotations and discussion in connection with the English Legal History course ...
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