Throughout his early career, Sir Edward Coke joined many of his
contemporaries in his concern about the uncertainty of the common
law. Coke attributed this uncertainty to the ignorance and
entrepreneurship of practitioners, litigants, and other users of
legal power whose actions eroded confidence in the law. Working to
limit their behaviours, Coke also simultaneously sought to
strengthen royal authority and the Reformation settlement. Yet the
tensions in his thought led him into conflict with James I, who had
accepted many of the criticisms of the common law. Sir Edward Coke
and the Reformation of the Laws reframes the origins of Coke's
legal thought within the context of law reform and provides a new
interpretation of his early career, the development of his legal
thought, and the path from royalism to opposition in the turbulent
decades leading up to the English civil wars.
General
Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in English Legal History |
Release date: |
November 2014 |
Authors: |
David Chan Smith
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Dimensions: |
229 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
310 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-107-06929-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Law >
Jurisprudence & general issues >
Legal history
|
LSN: |
1-107-06929-7 |
Barcode: |
9781107069299 |
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