Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

the fusion of laws foundered on the attachment of both nations to their fundamental laws and customs. The speaker of the House o ...

needed to be made ‘more certain’. If any law was not convenient, let parliament amend it, but in the mean time do not call it a ...

from Aristotelian ideas of the ‘popular state’, rather from the ‘state of the commonwealth’ defined by English Law: a law belong ...

as both legislature and high court to hold the king to the letter of his grants.^80 Immediately controversial was freedom from i ...

In his Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, published a fortnight after the king’s execution, John Milton asserted that the king had ...

Conclusion: Law and the State in History The combatantsin the ideological battles of the early seventeenth century shared the as ...

part of it was replaced. It was because the common laws of England and Scotland had led different lives that they turned out not ...

sanction the civil laws which must replace inevitably conflicting private judgments with a common measure of what was ‘right or ...

the one hand, instinctive obedience on the other’ and was ‘a connection of wills’ made by ‘obedience and force, fear of a ruler’ ...

uncorrupted, and their Laws from violation’; and at the same time declared it ‘a most sure Rule in State policy, That all the La ...

bibliography Law codes, chronicles, and treatises Adhemar of Chabannes, Historiarum Libri Tres, in Patrologia Latina, ed. J.-P. ...

Bodin, Jean, The Six Books of a Commonweale. Written by I. Bodin a famous Lawyer, and a man of great Experience in matters of St ...

Fleta, ed. H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles, Selden Soc. 72, 89, 99 (London, 1955–83). Formulary E, Scottish Letters and Brieve ...

Hobbes, Thomas, De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law, in The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Sir William Molesworth, ...

Loyseau, Charles, Les Oeuvres de Maistre Charles Loyseau(Lyon, 1707). ——A Treatise of Orders and Plain Dignities, ed. H. A. Lloy ...

Ponet, John, A Shorte Treatise of Politike Power, printed at the end of W. S. Hudson,John Ponet (1516?–1556): Advocate of Limite ...

——Tractatus de Officio Regis, ed. A. W. Pollard and C. Sayle (London: Wyclif Soc., 1887). Yves de Chartres, Correspondance, ed. ...

Conradi II Diplomata, ed. H. Bresslau, MGH Diplomata regum et impera- torum Germaniae 4 (Hanover, 1909). Conradi III et filii ei ...

—— iv.1327–1485, ed. A. R. Myers (London, 1969). English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I, ed. R. C. van Caenegem, Selden So ...

Lexicon Latinitatis Medii Aevi (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis: Turnhout, 1975). Lincolnshire Assize Roll for 1298 ...