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| ArchivedMaterial | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:36 | EbenMoglen |
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| ArmorieDelamirie | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Armorie v. Delamirie (1722) K.B., 1 Strange 505, 93 ER 664 Alex Feerst Carol DeMartino The Opinion Before Pratt, C.J. at nisi prius. The plaintiff, being a chimney ... | ||
| ArticlesInProcess | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:28 | EbenMoglen |
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| Articles In Process %TREEBROWSER{ theme "file" shared "tree" title "" openTo "1" noroot "true" }% %TREE{ web "" formatting "outline" topic ... | ||
| Assizes | 23 Sep 2008 - 18:13 | LuisVilla |
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| Assizes Courts sitting regionally, on circuit. Can try felonies, but hence are always required to have one of the 10 (later 12) judges of King's Bench , Common ... | ||
| AudreyLaryeaSecondPaper | 23 Dec 2017 - 01:31 | AudreyLaryea |
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| AudreyLaryea 22 Dec 2017 Freedom Through Struggle The history of freedom is the history of struggle, wherein contingencies that create struggle create freedom. Freedom ... | ||
| Bracton | 11 Sep 2008 - 15:49 | LuisVilla |
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| Common name of De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ("The Laws and Customs of England"), the first significant English legal text. The text (in Latin, with an English ... | ||
| BurdenOfTaxation | 16 Sep 2014 - 13:35 | FrancisWhite |
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| In the reading it's seems to me that there was an ongoing connection between the rise and fall of different ancient jurisdictions and courts, to the enhancement of ... | ||
| ClassNotes | 06 Feb 2008 - 23:42 | IanSullivan |
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| Class Notes This topic is a container for notes of our class meetings. Placeholder for first class's notes page | ||
| CommonRecovery | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:37 | EbenMoglen |
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| BeckyPrebble 21 Oct 2008 How was it that the common recovery was so effective? From today's perspective (which I realize is entirely the wrong way to look at it) ... | ||
| ConsistencyInMedievalCourts | 11 Sep 2014 - 16:21 | MichaelCoburn |
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| For the reading this week I was struck by the vast number of courts with overlapping jurisdictions that existed in Medieval England and how independent and in competition ... | ||
| CriminalProcedureRules | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:37 | EbenMoglen |
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| Yesterday in class one of the more startling things (at least for me) was that there was no right of appeal from a criminal conviction in the English legal system ... | ||
| DexterXHeeterFirstPaper | 06 Apr 2018 - 19:57 | DexterXHeeter |
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| A Land Not of a Single Peace but of Many (Revision) A. Harding wrote, #8220;England was not a land of a single peace but of many, #8221; (Harding 15) alluding to ... | ||
| DexterXHeeterSecondPaper | 06 Apr 2018 - 20:05 | DexterXHeeter |
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| "But with the First Gleam of Dawn" (Revision) The Unfreedom of People The freedom of people was created through a contingency caused by a decrease in the worker ... | ||
| DoigesCase | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Doige's Case Context Doige #8217;s case (also known as Shipton v. Dog, or Shipton v. Dogge) arose during a period of extension of trespass on the case for nonfeasance ... | ||
| DomesdayBook | 11 Sep 2008 - 17:39 | LuisVilla |
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| Maitland's commentary is good source; available at Books. This is the last land registration in England until 1874. | ||
| FinishedArticles | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:30 | EbenMoglen |
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| Completed Articles for Wikipedia Submission %TREEBROWSER{ theme "file" shared "tree" title "" openTo "1" noroot "true" }% %TREE{ web "" formatting ... | ||
| FirstPaper | 14 Nov 2017 - 13:48 | EbenMoglen |
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| Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Subject What Maitland called "the Englishry of English law" lies precisely in its diversity of ... | ||
| FunctionalExplanationsOfOrdeal | 16 Jan 2015 - 15:37 | AlexanderGerten |
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| Functionalist Explanations for the Persistence and Withering of the Ordeal Is it? Functionalism is probably more discredited now among anthropologists than ... | ||
| Glossary | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:38 | EbenMoglen |
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| A page for a glossary of terms. Please link to further reading where appropriate, or to a blank page where more research is appropriate but not yet done. For Old English ... | ||
| GuardianshipAndEnglishCommonLaw | 16 Oct 2017 - 06:53 | MalcolmEvans |
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| I came across article today in the New Yorker about legal guardians and elder abuse. One thing I found interesting is that the article attributes the guardianship ... | ||
| HundredMoot | 04 Sep 2014 - 14:12 | EbenMoglen |
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| While reading Baker's Introduction to English Legal History I ran across the term "The Moot" (p.4 Yeah, i takes me a while to read and understand these new history ... | ||
| InquistioninMedievalEngland | 16 Oct 2014 - 06:09 | AshleighHunt |
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| In Chapter 8 (pg. 126) Baker discusses the Ecclesiastic Courts in England that covered crimes committed by the Clergy, marriage and probate law. However, Baker makes ... | ||
| JailersLiability | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Jailers' Liability Casey Quinn In Case, 4 Co. Rep. 83b, the King's Bench cited a rule that jailers are held liable for prison breach even in cases of rescue: "If traitors ... | ||
| JoeBrunerPrivilegeofTheBox | 09 Apr 2018 - 02:01 | JoeBruner |
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| This was originally planned as two 1000 word essays. Putting everything on one page seems more appropriate because there is one central theme. Part One: The Rise ... | ||
| JustinMaffettFirstPaper | 30 Apr 2018 - 19:29 | JustinMaffett |
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| English Law Came From Somewhere, And It Wasn't God You might want one. By JustinMaffett 28 Nov 2017 "English" law in fact is not English at its origins ... | ||
| LanevCotton | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Lane v. Cotton What is the context and contemporary significance of Lane v. Cotton , 1 Ld. Raym 546 (1701)? Why is it relevant to the law of Internet infrastructure ... | ||
| LawBooks | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:38 | EbenMoglen |
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| Leges Henrici Primi (c. 1118) Collection of "ill digested Anglo Saxon laws with scraps of Canon law and personal observations" from the fifty or so years following ... | ||
| LopusChandler | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Introduction The legacy of Chandelor v. Lopus demonstrates evolving notions of warranty and contract legal theory under the English Common Law. Specifically, the ... | ||
| LukeRushingFirstPaper | 14 Apr 2018 - 21:00 | LukeRushing |
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| I) Introduction The #8220;Englishry of English law #8221; is a result of its diversity of origin, but the origins don #8217;t tell the complete story. England #8217 ... | ||
| LukeRushingSecondPaper | 15 Apr 2018 - 16:29 | LukeRushing |
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| I. Introduction Through contingency, the disempowered in England were able to transform unfreedom into freedom by unifying their might to usurp some power from the ... | ||
| LukeRushingThirdPaper | 15 Apr 2018 - 22:03 | LukeRushing |
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| Topic The broad powers of juries, judges, and the king to individualize the administration of criminal justice in England supports Beatty #8217;s assertion that capital ... | ||
| MagnaCarta | 23 Sep 2008 - 17:48 | LuisVilla |
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| Magna Carta 1215 Includes, among other things, essentially jurisdictional rules saying that jurisdiction can't move from the courts of the nobles to the Common Pleas ... | ||
| MalcolmEvansFirstPaper | 06 Apr 2018 - 18:24 | MalcolmEvans |
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| The Englishry of English law in the age of trumpism By MalcolmEvans Introduction "The Englishry of English law" lies precisely in its diversity of origin. While ... | ||
| MattConroyFirstPaper | 06 Apr 2018 - 21:29 | MattConroy |
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| Englishery of English Law By MattConroy 06 Apr 2018 As an analytical framework arguing that the diversity of origins formed the unique character of English Law ... | ||
| MattConroySecondPaper | 06 Apr 2018 - 19:56 | MattConroy |
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| Contingency By MattConroy 06 Apr 2018 Unfreedom did not transform into freedom over the course of the English Law by contingency only. Contingency played a major ... | ||
| MitchellAllestry | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Mitchell v. Allestry This case, materials collected at B M 572, was seen in the 18th and 19th centuries as inventing what American lawyers took Lemuel Shaw to have ... | ||
| MoralityOfPenalBonds | 02 Nov 2014 - 14:57 | JimParks |
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| In his book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, anthropologist David Graeber traces the history of debt and its relationship with and effect on human societies. Among other ... | ||
| OnWitchraft | 21 Dec 2019 - 00:33 | IsraelRodriguezRubio |
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| The Community's Peace: Witchcraft, Popular Culture, and the Law during the Early Modern Period #8220; I n the case of Witch Craft many things are very difficult ... | ||
| OriginCertiorari | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Origin of the Writ of Certiorari Meaning of the Term Certiorari ("to be searched") is the present passive infinitive of Latin certiorare, ("to search"). Function ... | ||
| OriginPeremptories | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Origins of the Peremptory Challenge Here is a message from a colleague: My name is . I'm student from Law Faculty, in Poland. I write in the hope that You can answer ... | ||
| PeasantsRevoltInEnglishLaw | 27 Sep 2014 - 19:48 | InbarAsif |
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| Palmer writes about how the increased centralization and intrusiveness of the government helped motivate the great Peasants' Revolt of 1381. (pg. 6) He writes specifically ... | ||
| PerjuriousWager | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Professor Moglen, would it be possible to give me ideas/feedback on what I've got here? Perjurious Wager What happens if a plaintiff complains to the church courts ... | ||
| PlacesAndCourts | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:40 | EbenMoglen |
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| Places and Courts original structure: County Hundred Tithing Ville Post Norman, you also get the feudal/military tenure system, superimposed on the older system ... | ||
| ProcedureofStarChamber | 20 Jan 2015 - 00:09 | MichaelCoburn |
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| Procedure Bill of Information A written complaint alleging an offense punishable by the Court that was signed by private party's counsel or the attorney general ... | ||
| PropertyInMedievalLaw | 16 Sep 2014 - 07:52 | JimParks |
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| Plunkett writes on pg. 141 "It was also a peculiarity of feudalism that these matters of public law #8212; the prerogative of the Crown, the rights and duties of ... | ||
| QuestionsBeingAnswered | 23 Aug 2014 - 21:47 | EbenMoglen |
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| Questions To ask a new question, create a topic, using a descriptive topic name that identifies the subject of the question. The topic's parent should be "QuestionsBeingAnswered ... | ||
| QuoMinus | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Quo Minus Why in 1588 might counsel prefer to bring an action of quominus than to use the ordinary mechanisms of debt collection in the Common Pleas or Queen's Bench ... | ||
| RefugeeProperty | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Political Refugees' Property How did political refugees protect their property during the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth? The core of the answer to this question ... | ||
| RhickBoseSecondPaper | 02 Apr 2018 - 01:21 | RhickBose |
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| One damned contingency after the other By RhickBose 01 Apr 2018 Introduction #8220;Power concedes nothing without a demand. #8221; Frederick Douglass, If There ... | ||
| RomanLaw | 08 Sep 2014 - 15:11 | EbenMoglen |
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| This is not a question. You've started an essay on very complex and indeterminate issues, for which you've collected (irresponsibly) a good deal of secondary ... | ||
| RyanHolmesFirstPaper | 22 Dec 2017 - 18:37 | RyanHolmes |
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| The Englishry of the English Law Ryan Holmes 28 Nov 2017 Section I The Englishry of the English law owes a great deal to the diverse traditions that contributed ... | ||
| RyanHolmesSecondPaper | 27 Mar 2018 - 17:21 | RyanHolmes |
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| Hello Professor, The actual first draft of my second paper (the contingency paper) was accidentally submitted under the heading for my First Paper in late December ... | ||
| SecondPaper | 27 Mar 2018 - 00:01 | EbenMoglen |
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| Paper Assignment Not more than 1000 words. Under any circumstances. Subject Unfreedom of both people and property transformed into freedom in the history of English ... | ||
| SignificanceofDomesdayBook | 10 Sep 2014 - 03:02 | AllysonMackavage |
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| Plunkett on pg. 12 writes that the Domesday Book was "so respected that it was called simply 'the record', so great was its authority." I was wondering how the Domesday ... | ||
| SouthcotesCase | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Attached a case (Drake v. Royman) that needs translation; overall still a work in progress. LuisVilla Southcote's Case Why Southcote's Case, 4 Co. Rep. 83b; Cro ... | ||
| StatsEdwII | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Statutes Royal Ordinances, Edward II This is a work in progress Edward II Brief History: Reign 1307 #8211; 1327 Married Isabella, from the French Royal Family ... | ||
| StatuteLaborers | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Labor Policy after 1348 and Theory of Contract How did the Statute of Laborers of 1351 contribute to the development of assumpsit as a replacement for covenant and ... | ||
| StatuteofLabourers | 03 Dec 2014 - 03:21 | AllysonMackavage |
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| Palmer goes into great detail on how the massive depopulation during the Black Death led to the passage the Statute of Labourers and how it was used to force the able ... | ||
| TWikiGuestFirstPaper | 27 Mar 2018 - 15:52 | LukeRushing |
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| It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ... | ||
| TWikiGuestSecondPaper | 26 Dec 2017 - 20:06 | JustinMaffett |
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| Unfreedom and the Black Death By Justin Maffett The Black Death was a pivotal moment in English legal history, having ushered in a wave of economic and social changes ... | ||
| TheExchequerOfTheJews | 05 Jan 2015 - 21:27 | EbenMoglen |
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| EXCHEQUER OF THE JEWS Background : Jews began to settle in England soon after the Norman Conquest in 1066. They for the most part escaped the massacres during the ... | ||
| TheNon-ReceptionInEngland | 17 Dec 2014 - 18:24 | JulianAzran |
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| The text of this page authored by Julian Azran and Ignacio Menchaca is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike ... | ||
| TheOriginOfTheWritOfCertiorari | 02 Feb 2009 - 13:35 | EbenMoglen |
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| KyuYoungLee 25 Jan 2009 THE ORIGIN OF THE WRIT OF CERTIORARI Introduction The writ of certiorari is one of the legal procedures involving the proceedings between ... | ||
| TheReceptionInEnglishdRenaissance | 21 Nov 2014 - 22:15 | JulianAzran |
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| The Reception, a process in the renaissance of replacement of "barbarian" medieval customary law by classical roman law 1 , was occurring during the renaissance ... | ||
| TheStatuteOfNorthampton | 07 Oct 2014 - 01:06 | KatherineKettle |
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| In his book "Concise History", Plucknett reviews several historical changes that were the reason to the beginning disappearance of judges' discretion during the 12 ... | ||
| TimeLine | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:40 | EbenMoglen |
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| A page for a timeline of dates. Please link to further pages for more reading, rather than adding too much detail in this page. See also LawBooks 1000s Post 1066 ... | ||
| VestedAndContingentRemainders | 10 Nov 2008 - 22:26 | EbenMoglen |
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| Is there much difference between the interest of an heir apparent in an estate in fee tail and a remainderman? They seem to me to be pretty much the same thing, except ... | ||
| WagerSales | 23 Aug 2014 - 20:10 | EbenMoglen |
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| Wager of Law in Cases of Sales | ||
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| WilliamPennTrial | 02 Jan 2020 - 18:42 | DaihuiMeng |
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| On William Penn's trial Clerk. Bring William Penn and William Mead to the bar. Mayor. Sirrah, who bid you put off their hats? put on their hats again. Obser ... | ||
| WritOfProhibition | 09 Jan 2015 - 14:00 | KatherineKettle |
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