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Author Andersen, Per, 1969-

Title Legal procedure and practice in medieval Denmark / by Per Andersen ; translated by Frederik and Sarah Pedersen
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 452 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Medieval law and its practice ; v. 11
Medieval law and its practice ; v. 11.
Contents Medieval Denmark -- The tradition-and the new paradigm -- Learned law and secular legislation -- The Danish provincial laws -- The institutions of legal administration -- Legal procedure in the provincial laws -- Learned tendencies and practical considerations -- Practice and regulation at the Herredsting -- Landstinget-between the people and the king -- Birkeret, ting and local procedure -- The borough-continuity and consequence -- The royal court of law-the highest court
Summary This book offers a comprehensive examination of how the Fourth Lateran Councils prohibition against trial by ordeal was implemented in Danish secular law and how it required both a fundamental restructuring of legal procedure and an entirely different approach to jurisprudence in practice. It offers a broader understanding of how ideology could penetrate and change jurisprudence firstly by changing the norms, secondly by presupposing new kind of legal institutions. Rather than focusing on pure dogmatics, this investigation will focus on uncovering the ideological character of procedure with re
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Procedure (Law) -- Denmark -- History -- To 1500
Procedure (Law) -- Denmark -- History -- 16th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
LAW -- Legal Services.
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
Procedure (Law)
Denmark
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pedersen, Frederik
Pedersen, Sarah (Professor of communication and media)
ISBN 9789004206588
9004206582
1283161656
9781283161657
9786613161659
6613161659