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Author Beaumanoir, Philippe de Remi, sire de, approximately 1250-1296.

Title The Coutumes de Beauvaisis of Philippe de Beaumanoir / translated by F.R.P. Akehurst
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 749 pages) : map
Series Middle Ages series
Middle Ages series.
Contents 1. Judges -- 2. Summonses -- 3. Permissible Delays -- 4. Attorneys -- 5. Advocates -- 6. Complaints -- 7. Answers -- 8. Latecomers -- 9. Inspections -- 10. Superior Jurisdiction -- 11. Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction -- 12. Wills -- 13. Dower -- 14. Inherited Real Property -- 15. Custodianship -- 16. Minors -- 17. Tutors -- 18. Illegitimacy -- 19. Consanguinity -- 20. Good-Faith Holders -- 21. Partnerships -- 22. Corporations -- 23. Property -- 24. Customs -- 25. Highways -- 26. Measurements -- 27. Prices -- 28. Horses -- 29. Services -- 30. Offenses -- 31. Larceny -- 32. Novel Disseisin -- 33. Fraud -- 34. Contracts -- 35. Writings -- 36. Safekeeping -- 37. Loans -- 38. Rentals -- 39. Proofs -- 40. Auditors -- 41. Arbitrators -- 42. Liquidated Damages -- 43. Sureties -- 44. Redemption -- 45. Avowals -- 46. Religious Houses -- 47. Subinfeudation -- 48. Freehold -- 49. Necessity -- 50. Communes -- 51. Seizures -- 52. Trespass -- 53. Reclamation -- 54. Creditors' Remedies I -- 55. Creditors' Remedies II
56. Incompetents -- 57. Marital Maintenance -- 58. Jurisdiction -- 59. Private War -- 60. Truces -- 61. Appeals -- 62. Default of Judgment -- 63. Defenses -- 64. Judicial Battles -- 65. Jurors' Delays -- 66. Recusal -- 67. Judgment -- 68. Usury -- 69. Misadventure -- 70. Unenforceable Gifts
Summary F.R.P. Akehurst provides the first English translation of the complete text of Coutumes, the customary law of Clermont in the Beauvais region as it was practiced and understood in the late thirteenth century. The Coutumes de Beauvaisis provides a unique perspective on thirteenth-century civil and criminal trials
Notes Translation of: Coutumes de Beauvaisis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Translation of: Coutumes de Beauvaisis
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Subject Customary law -- France -- Beauvais
Law -- France -- Beauvais -- Sources
Law, Medieval.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
HISTORY -- Medieval.
Customary law
Law
Law, Medieval
Gewoonterecht.
Rechtsbronnen.
Droit coutumier -- France -- Beauvaisis.
Droit -- France -- Beauvaisis -- Sources.
France -- Beauvais
Genre/Form Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585196702
9780585196701
9781512800029
1512800023
Other Titles Coutumes de Beauvaisis. English