Limit search to available items
E-book
Author Morris, William Alfred, 1875-1946, author.

Title The early English county court : an historical treatise with illustrative documents / by William Alfred Morris
Published Berkeley, California : University of California Press ; London, England : Cambridge University Press, 1926

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ix pages, pages 90-230)
Series University of California publications in history ; volume 14, no. 2
University of California publications in history ; v. 14, no. 2.
Contents Part I. The court of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries -- Need of a new study of the county court -- Frequency and meeting-places -- Special sessions -- Magnus comitatus and plenus comitatus -- Suit and suitors -- The county court at work -- Judgment in the county court -- Offenses included in the sheriff's peace -- Business relating to pleas of the crown -- The removal of causes to the king's courts -- Administrative importance of the county court -- Fiscal business -- The ordaining impulse -- Elections -- Conclusion -- part II. Illustrative documents -- A. Miscellaneous county court documents -- Successive sessions of the County of Middlesex, 1295 -- Successive sessions of the Count Court of Lincolnshire, 1344 -- Mention of the shire hall and the retrocomitatus -- Designation of the place for holding the County Court of Surrey, 1262 -- Relief from suit of county, 1254 -- The setting of a day for the hearing of plaints, 1254 -- Presentment of Englishry in the County Court of Sussex, 1281 -- Appeals in the County Court of Westmoreland, 1278 -- Appeals in the County Court of Nottingham, 1280 -- Proceedings upon an appeal de averiis captis, tempore probably Edward I or Edward II -- Custom in Westmoreland regarding appearance and pledging of the accused, 1278 -- Manucaption in the county court, 1335 -- Order to place offenders on the exigent, 1252 -- Order to place offender on the exigent, 1344 -- The process of outlawry, 1341 -- An illegal judgment of outlawry, 1274 -- Order for the declaration to annul outlawry, 1249 -- Action upon an appeal in the county court concerning stripes, mayhem, and breach of the peace, 1254 -- Action upon an appeal concerning other offenses, 1262 -- A woman's appeal with pledges for prosecution, 1382 -- An inquest to determine guilt of the accused, 1260 -- Proceedings relative to the Grand Assize, 1285 -- An order respiting action upon a case in a county court, 1254 -- The Writ Pone -- Writs of certiorari with return, 1306, 1319 -- Inquest in county court concerning property of a royal ward, June 1258 -- Inquest concerning payment of a debt due the King, 1263 -- Inquest concerning various debts paid to the sheriffs, 1271 -- Installation of bailiffs in the county court, 1278 -- An escheators oath of office in the county court, 1259 -- An abbot's appointment in the county court of agents to receive estreats and summonses of the exchequer -- Reading of a deed in French and English, 1295 -- Execution of a quit claim, 1267 -- Reading of the Great Charter, 1267 -- Proclamation in the county court as a step in administration, 1292 -- Examples of the writ de coronatore eligendo -- Reelections of officials in County Court, 1258, 1345 -- B. County court records -- Extracts from the rolls of the County Court of Cornwall held at Lostwithiel on Monday before the Feast of St Thomas and on Monday the morrow of the decollation of St John the Baptist 7 Edward III -- Perquisites of the County Court of Kent, from Monday before the feast of St. John the Baptist, 48 Henry III -- Proficuum arising from the County Courts of Essex and Hertford, from Michaelmas at the close of Henry III to the Michaelmas next following -- Perquisites of the County Court of Devon, from the Feast of St. Calixtus at the beginning of 43 Henry III -- Amercements in the County Court of Yorkshire, from October, 42 Henry III, to September 43 Henry III
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Online resource; title from PDF title page (HeinOnline, viewed February 19, 2020)
Subject Courts -- Great Britain -- History
County courts -- England -- History
County courts.
Courts.
Oberster Gerichtshof
Common law
Recht
England.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book