Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... courts they survived for centuries . He merely drove them out of such business as imperilled the unity and safety of the State by offering their clients cheaper , surer and quicker justice in the royal courts . His writs attracted to ...
... courts they survived for centuries . He merely drove them out of such business as imperilled the unity and safety of the State by offering their clients cheaper , surer and quicker justice in the royal courts . His writs attracted to ...
Page 158
... courts , was the most germinating legal work of the age . Though case - law was not yet binding on the courts , it was fast becoming so , for the professional judges were the sole interpreters of the ' custom of the King's court ' which ...
... courts , was the most germinating legal work of the age . Though case - law was not yet binding on the courts , it was fast becoming so , for the professional judges were the sole interpreters of the ' custom of the King's court ' which ...
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... courts of an older kind , administering the customary law of the neighbourhood . The most important of these was the shire - court , presided over by the sheriff , which met once a month in the south and every six weeks in the wilder ...
... courts of an older kind , administering the customary law of the neighbourhood . The most important of these was the shire - court , presided over by the sheriff , which met once a month in the south and every six weeks in the wilder ...
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Silent Vanished Races | 1 |
The Coming of the English | 15 |
The Faith | 24 |
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