| Description |
xlix, 570 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN |
9781107187054 hardback : alkaline paper |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The legal character of Magna Carta -- Chapter 29 in the fourteenth century -- Magna Carta in the inns of court 1340-1540 -- Personal liberty and the church -- Royal prerogative and common law under Elizabeth I -- William Fleetwood and Magna Carta -- The resurgence of chapter 29 after 1580 -- Magna Carta and the rule of law 1592-1606 -- Sir Edward Coke and Magna Carta 1606-1615 -- "A year consecrate to justice" 1616 -- Myth and reality -- Appendices. Two Fifteenth-Century Readings on Chapter 29 -- Actions Founded on Chapter 29 (1501-32) -- William Fleetwood on Chapter 29 (c. 1558) -- Fleetwood's Tracts on Magna Carta and Statutes -- Six Elizabethan Cases (1582-1600) -- The Judges' Report on Habeas Corpus (1592) -- Coke's Memorandum on Chapter 29 (1604) -- Whetherly v. Whetherly (1605) -- Maunsell's Case (1607) -- Bulthorpe v. Ladbroke (1607). |
| Library Class |
Law HA10
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| Subject |
Magna Carta -- Influence.
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Constitutional history -- England -- To 1500.
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Constitutional history -- England -- 16th century.
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Constitutional history -- England -- 17th century.
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