Domesday Book and the Law Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England

Name: Domesday Book and the Law Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England
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ISBN: 9780521528467

ISBN-10: 0521528461

ISBN-13: 9780521528467

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robin Fleming

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The Domesday Book contains a great many things, including the most comprehensive, varied, and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the common law. This book argues that it can - and should - be read as a legal text. When the statistical information present in the great survey is stripped away, there is much material still left, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony given by jurors impanelled in 1086, or from the sworn statements of lords and their men. This information, read in context, can provide a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 572
Size: 7.44" wide x 9.72" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English



Introduction: disputes and the inquest



Domesday Book and the Law



The inquest and the mechanics of justice



Living in the shadow of the law



Disputes and the Edwardian past



Disputes and the Norman present



The Texts



Indices