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Ralph V. Turner.
Judges, Administrators and the Common Law in Angevin England.
London: The Hambledon Press, 1994.
ISBN 185285104X.
Hardback, stitch bound.
160x240x29mm.
xxiv,316pp.
English.
Unused bargain.This item £9.50
[Publisher's price £50.00]
683g.
This collection of essays brings together the author's work on the growth of administrative monarchy in Angevin England, concentrating upon the personnnel of royal government and especially upon the common law courts. It describes the institutions of the English common law during its formative period, including the growth of the jury and of the two central courts, Common Pleas at Westminster and the court following the king, later King's Bench. Another group of essays illustrate the justices' handling of cases coming before the law courts, examining pleas that touched the king's interest. After a discussion of the authorship of England's first great lawbook, Glanvill, other essays examine the justices, their level of literacy, the conflicts facing the clerics among them in hearing secular cases, and the hostility that they aroused as 'new men' in the king's service from conservative elements in society.
Contents:
- Henry II's aims in reforming England's land law - feudal or royalist?;
- Origins of the Common Pleas and King's Bench;
- Origins of the medieval English jury - Frankish, English or Scandinavian;
- Roman law in England before Bracton;
- Who was the author of Glanvill?;
- Reputation of royal judges under the Angevin kings;
- The Miles Literatus in 12th- & 13th-c. England - how rare a phenomenon?;
- Religious patronage of Angevin royal administrators;
- Clerical judges in English secular courts - ideal vs reality;
- Richard Barre and Michael Belet - 2 Angevin civil servants;
- Simon of Pattishall, early common law judge;
- Roger Huscarl, professional lawyer in England & royal justice in Ireland;
- Changing perceptions of the new administrative class in Anglo-Norman & Angevin England;
- The royal courts treat disseizin by the king - John & Henry III;
- Exercise of the King's will in inheritance of baronies;
- The Mandeville inheritance, 1189-1236.
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