The Publications of the Selden Society

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Selden Society, 1911 - Court records
 

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Page 321 - And when he that denies or traverses the fact pleaded by his antagonist has tendered the issue thus : " and " this he prays may be inquired of by the country...
Page xliv - Parliament, that the chancellor and treasurer of England for the time being and keeper of the King's privy seal, or two of them, calling to them a bishop and a temporal lord of the King's most honourable council and the two chief justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas for the time being, or other two justices in their absence...
Page 30 - This is a matter of most universal right ; and it was originally permitted °, not only for the encouragement of agriculture, but for the necessity of the thing. For, when lords of manors granted out parcels of land to tenants, for services either done or to be done, these tenants could not plough or manure the land without beasts ; these beasts could not be sustained without pasture ; and pasture could not be had but in the lords' wastes, and on the uninclosed fallow grounds of themselves and the...
Page 387 - ... illustrate forcibly the struggle between the Council and the Common Law Courts ; the development of equity procedure and principle outside the Chancery ; the social effect of the dissolution of the monasteries and the raising of rents ; the tenure of land ; the rights of copyholders ; the power of guilds ; and many other matters of legal and social interest. The introduction covers the whole history of the Court to its gradual extinction under the Commonwealth and Restoration. Vol. XIII., for...
Page 388 - No systematic attempt of this sort has hitherto been made in England. A large part of the work is derived from hitherto unpublished sources, and of the residue a great deal has been obtained from books that are not generally accessible or treat only of the affairs of some one town. The first volume deals exhaustively with crime, tort and procedure. The introduction discusses the growth of customary law in the boroughs, and contains a bibliography of custumals already published. Vol. XIX., for 1904....
Page 402 - Rule, (d) Any candidate may withdraw, (e) The names of the persons nominated shall be printed in the notice convening the Annual General Meeting. (/) If the persons nominated, and whose nomination shall not have been withdrawn, are not more than five, they shall at the Annual General Meeting be declared...
Page 387 - The Forest Plea Rolls are very interesting and little known. They begin as early as the reign of King John, and consist of perambulations, claims, presentments and other proceedings (such as trials for poaching and trespass in the Forests) before the Justices in Eyre of the Forests. The present volume deals with the administration of the Forests in the I3th century, their judges, officers, courts, procedure, &c.
Page 385 - PUBLICATIONS. The Volumes already published are Vol. I., for 1887. SELECT PLEAS OF THE CROWN. Vol. I., AD 1200-1225. Edited, from the Rolls preserved in HM Public Record Office, by FW MAITLAND, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge. With Facsimile. Crown 410.
Page 385 - ... or indirectly, as for feudal services, tolls, franchises, rivers, &c. Others do not concern land. The extracts illustrate the gradual evolution of the different forms of action, both real and personal. Vol. IV., for 1890.
Page 403 - Director which they may think reasonable. 11. It shall be the duty of the Literary Director (but always subject to the control of the Council) to supervise the editing of the publications of the Society, to suggest suitable editors, and generally to advise the Council with respect to carrying the objects of the Society into effect. 12. Each member shall be entitled to one copy of every work published by the Society as for any year of his membership. No person other than an Honorary Member shall receive...

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