Lawyers, Litigation & English Society Since 1450.
Legal history has usually been written in terms of writs and legislation, and the development of legal doctrine. Christopher Brooks, in this series of essays roughly half of which are previously unpublished, approaches the law from two different angles: the uses made of courts and the fluctuations i...
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
1998
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Litigants and Attorneys in the King''s Bench and Common Pleas, 1560-1640; 3 Interpersonal Conflict and Social Tension: Civil Litigation in England, 1640-1830; 4 Litigation and Society in England, 1200-1996; 5 The Decline and Rise of the English Legal Profession, 1700-1850; 6 Apprenticeship and Legal Training in England, 1700-1850; 7 Law, Lawyers and the Social History of England, 1500-1800; 8 The Place of Magna Carta and the ''Ancient Constitution'' in Sixteenth-Century English Legal Thought.
- 9 Professions, Ideology and the ''Middling Sort of People'', 1550-1650Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
