| The Legal Framework of English Feudalism: The Maitland Lectures Given in 1972 Contributor(s): Milsom, S. F. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521082838 ISBN-13: 9780521082839 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: Professor Milsom works out a fresh view of the beginnings of the common law concerning land. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 346.410 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in English Legal History |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.63 lbs) 220 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |