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English Justice - Between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter, 1066-1215 (Paperback)
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English Justice - Between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter, 1066-1215 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World
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Originally published in 1965, English Justice between the Norman
Conquest and the Great Charter discusses the history of English
justice in the period of the Norman Conquest, of the Angevin
achievements, and of the contrasting reigns of Richard I and John.
This book looks at this period in light of the great work done by
Felix Liebermann and others on Anglo-Saxon law, which made possible
a new estimate of the inheritance entered upon by the Norman
conquerors. The book discusses how the writ and sworn inquest can
now be safely recognised as arising in the years when the communal
courts of the hundred and the shire - under royal surveillance -
administered justice to the English people. The book also looks at
the vigour of the conquerors and how, through the exertion of the
king's writ, the sworn inquest was developed into the jury. The
book discusses how Henry II, not the West Saxon kings devised the
returnable writ from which later developments in English judicial
administration grew, and how he built up a permanent bench of
judges based at Westminster, from there making periodic journeys to
administer justice throughout the land. With all their many faults,
the early Angevin rulers, King John as well as his father, were
concerned to play their part as kings who provided justice and
judgment for their subjects.
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