The Legal Framework of English Feudalism: The Maitland Lectures given in 1972
S.F.C. Milsom
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.
عام:
1976
الناشر:
Cambridge University Press
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
214
ISBN 10:
0521209471
ISBN 13:
9780521209472
سلسلة الكتب:
Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
ملف:
PDF, 2.77 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1976