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Th e Oxford History of the Laws of England 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd i 3/3/2012 1:11:10 PM THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND General Editor: Sir John Baker, Q.C., LL.D., F.B.A., Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge Th e Oxford History of the Laws of England will provide a detailed survey of the development of English law and its institutions from the earliest times until the twentieth century, drawing heavily upon recent research using unpublished materials. Volume I: The Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s Helmholz isbn 978-0-19-825897-1 Volume II: 871–1216 Hudson isbn 978-0-19-826030-1 Volume III: 1216–1307 Brand isbn 978-0-19-825866-7 Volume IV: 1307–1377 Donahue isbn 978-0-19-926951-8 Volume V: 1399–1483 isbn 978-0-19-926599-2 Volume VI: 1483–1558 Baker isbn 978-0-19-825817-9 Volume VII: 1558–1625 Ibbetson isbn 978-0-19-825802-5 Volume VIII: 1625–1689 Brooks isbn 978-0-19-826031-8 Volume IX: 1689–1760 isbn 978-0-19-826100-1 Volume X: 1760–1820 Oldham isbn 978-0-19-826494-1 Volume XI: 1820–1914, English Legal System Cornish, Anderson, Cocks, Lobban, Polden, and Smith isbn 978-0-19-925881-9 Volume XII: 1820–1914, Private Law Cornish, Anderson, Cocks, Lobban, Polden, and Smith isbn 978-0-19-925882-6 Volume XIII: 1820–1914, Fields of Development Cornish, Anderson, Cocks, Lobban, Polden, and Smith isbn 979-0-19-923975-7 (Three-volume set of Volumes XI, XII, and XIII: isbn 978-0-19-925883-3) 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd ii 3/3/2012 1:11:10 PM Th e Oxford History of the Laws of England o VOLUME II 871–1216 John Hudson Professor of Legal History at the University of St Andrews and William W. Cook Global Law Professor at University of Michigan Law School 1 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd iii 3/3/2012 1:11:11 PM 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © John Hudson, 2012 Th e moral rights of the author have been asserted First published 2012 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01P0000148 with the permission of OPSI and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Library of Congress Control Number: 2011939974 ISBN 978–0–19–826030–1 Printed in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd iv 3/3/2012 1:11:11 PM CONTENTS Preface xiii Abbreviations xv INTRODUCTORY 1. Th e History of Law and the History of Disputes 3 1 Approaches to the history of law 4 2 Th e conduct of disputes 5 PART I: LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 2. Kings and Law 17 1 Law and kingship 18 2 Legislation and law in practice 26 3 Royal offi cials 29 4 Communication with royal servants 41 5 Conclusion 42 3. Courts 43 1 Th e king’s court 43 2 Regional and district courts 46 3 Lords’ courts 56 4 Ecclesiastical courts 63 5 Relations between courts 64 4. Procedure 66 1 Two cases 67 2 Bringing an accusation or claim 69 3 Ensuring attendance 72 4 Further pleading and argument 76 5 Mesne judgment 78 6 Proof 79 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd v 3/3/2012 1:11:11 PM vi contents 7 Final judgment 87 8 Enforcement 91 5. Land 93 1 Types of land 94 2 Landholding, lordship, and dependent tenure 115 3 Security 120 4 Inheritance 122 5 Bequests of land and the Anglo-Saxon will 126 6 Alienability 136 7 Church lands 143 8 Conclusion 147 6. Movables 149 1 Ownership 150 2 Control of movables 150 3 Alienability, succession, and bequest 152 4 Sale 152 5 Conclusion 160 7. Th eft and Violence 161 1 Vocabulary and categorisation 161 2 Types of off ence 164 3 Responsibility and liability 168 4 Prevention and police 169 5 Compensation 177 6 Punishment 180 7 Banishment and outlawry 196 8 Conclusion 198 8. Status 200 1 Hierarchies 201 2 Men of higher status 202 3 Men of lesser status 207 4 Slaves 212 5 Clergy 218 6 Lordship and commendation 220 9. Marriage and Family 225 1 Marriage 226 2 Illegitimacy 236 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd vi 3/3/2012 1:11:11 PM contents vii 3 Husband and wife 237 4 Minors 241 5 Spiritual kinship 242 6 Conclusion 243 10. Conclusion 244 1 Continuity and change from Alfred to 1066 244 2 Diversity and uniformity 247 3 Th e place of the late Anglo-Saxon period in the development of English law 250 PART II: ANGLO-NORMAN ENGLAND 11. Kings and Law 255 1 Norman law and Anglo-Norman England 255 2 Law and kingship 256 3 Royal offi cials 260 4 Communication with royal servants 270 5 Income from justice 271 6 Conclusion 271 12. Courts 273 1 Th e king’s court 274 2 County courts 276 3 Hundred and wapentake courts 280 4 Lords’ courts 284 5 Ecclesiastical courts 297 6 Transfer of cases between secular courts 300 7 Conclusion 302 13. Procedure 303 1 Two cases 304 2 Bringing an accusation or claim 307 3 Ensuring attendance 310 4 Further pleading and argument 314 5 Mesne judgment 317 6 Proof 318 7 Final judgment 329 8 Enforcement 331 9 Conclusion 332 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd vii 3/3/2012 1:11:11 PM viii contents 14. Land 333 1 Landholding and lordship 334 2 Types of lay free tenure 338 3 Security of tenure 341 4 Inheritance 347 5 Alienability 357 6 Unfree tenure 367 7 Ecclesiastical landholding and alms tenure 369 8 Conclusion 372 15. Movables 376 1 Ownership 376 2 Succession 377 3 Sale and grant 379 4 Conclusion 383 16. Th eft and Violence 384 1 Vocabulary and categorisation 384 2 Types of off ence 389 3 Responsibility and liability 390 4 Prevention and police 391 5 Punishment 399 6 Conclusion 415 17. Status 416 1 Hierarchies 416 2 Men of higher status 416 3 Men of lesser status 418 4 Clergy 428 5 Jews 430 6 Lordship in Anglo-Norman and Angevin England 431 18. Marriage and Family 435 1 Marriage 435 2 Illegitimacy 444 3 Husband and wife 445 4 Minors 452 5 Conclusion: ‘Feudal incidents’ 454 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd viii 3/3/2012 1:11:11 PM contents ix 19. Forest Laws from Anglo-Saxon England to the Early Th irteenth Century 455 1 Anglo-Saxon England 456 2 Anglo-Norman England 457 3 Angevin England 467 4 Conclusion 484 20. Conclusion 487 1 Continuity and change across 1066 487 2 Diversity and uniformity by 1135 490 3 Th e reign of Stephen (1135–54) 492 PART III: ANGEVIN ENGLAND 21. Kings and Law 497 1 Law and kingship 497 2 Royal offi cials 500 3 Angevin reform: a chronological survey 509 4 Reforms and reformers 528 22. Courts 537 1 Th e king’s court 537 2 County courts 550 3 Hundred courts 554 4 Th e sheriff ’s tourn 555 5 Lords’ courts 556 6 Ecclesiastical courts 565 7 Transfer of cases between secular courts 569 23. Procedure in Land Cases 574 1 Richard of Anstey’s account 574 2 Litigants 578 3 Cases concerning right 580 4 Cases concerning only seisins 603 5 Enforcement and settlements 621 6 Reopening cases 622 7 Change and continuity 624 00-OHLE-Prelims.indd ix 3/3/2012 1:11:11 PM

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This volume in the landmark Oxford History of the Laws of England series, spans three centuries that encompassed the tumultuous years of the Norman conquest, and during which the common law as we know it today began to emerge. The first full-length treatment of all aspects of the early development o
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