Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State

bailliages(c. 26). The costs payable to the court by the defeated parties in civil suits were to be limited to a tenth of the va ...

whom he counselled, Matthew had told him ‘not to come back again, if he loved him’. But others said that gifts the baillihad ref ...

the first ‘articles of the eyre’ were drawn up at the end of the twelfth century, the Inquest of Sheriffs of 1170 had asked abou ...

these questions elicited can be seen at the session of the eyre in Shropshire in 1256: seven cases of the escape of thieves were ...

prelates, magnates, and free tenants of the rights and liberties of the king, including the withdrawal of suit to county and hun ...

normal practice was for the inquisitors to question each juratusindi- vidually rather than to obtain ‘verdicts’ from juries of p ...

The primary purpose of the inquests of 1247 was to restore those unjustly disinherited by Louis or his predecessors in these pol ...

The inquiries of 1247 exposed to public criticism an administrative culture which habitually overrode the customary rights of co ...

1258 began by ordering that four knights should be chosen in each county to attend every day in the county court, ‘hear all comp ...

tion of the state of the king and the kingdom’ in a different sense. In the summer of 1258 the barons embarked on ‘great and dif ...

Beaune, bailliof Vermandois, appears to have been one of a series ‘for the correction of officials’. In 1298, for instance, prot ...

his back against an oak tree in the wood of Vincennes, gathering his councillors around them, and hearing ‘the Pleas of the gate ...

called into existence within the royal household. There is record of the expenses incurred by the towns of Beaumont and Pontoise ...

Chapelle, a knight who was a central figure in the king’s court at this time and pronounced the judgment for the convent, anothe ...

business with parlements.^57 Baillisand sénéchauxwere the founders of the French legal system, because the bailliageswere not ro ...

concluded by the court’s arrêts(judgments).^63 Under the developed pro- cedure suits began with the plaintiffs’ requêtes, which ...

over property which was not clearly ‘free alms’ or ‘lay fee’.^65 Parlement sent councillors to sit in the exchequer at Rouen, wh ...

sénéchausséesanswerable to Paris had spread across the whole country, parlementsettling administrative boundary disputes, as it ...

realm its function of registering new laws, including financial edicts, along with its scrutiny of the proceedings of the centra ...

all his other seneschals and baillies in 1309 on how they should requisition supplies (prises) for the royal household (a perenn ...