Domesday Book contains the most comprehensive, varied and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the Common Law. This book argues that it can--and should--be read as a legal text. Stripped of its statistical information, Domesday Book contains a remarkable amount of legal material, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony, or from the sworn statements. This information, read in context, provides a picture of what the law looked like, the ways in which it was changing, and the means whereby the inquest was a central event in the formation of English law.
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ISBN | 9780521528467 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Kartonierter Einband (Kt) |
Verlag | Cambridge University Press |
Jahr | 20020617 |
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