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The reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616
- Title
- The reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616 / Sir John Baker.
- Author
- Baker, John H. (John Hamilton)
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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- Description
- xlix, 570 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Magna Carta was largely ineffective for practical purposes between the fourteenth century and the sixteenth, late-medieval law lectures giving no hint of its later importance. A treatise by William Fleetwood (c.1558) was still in the traditional mould, but the lectures of the 'Puritan' barrister and MP Robert Snagge in 1581, and the speeches and tracts of his colleagues, advocated new uses for it. After centuries of oblivion, in 1587 there were eight reported cases in which chapter 29 was cited. Sir Edward Coke made extensive claims for chapter 29, linking it with habeas corpus, and then as a judge (1606-16) he deployed it with effect in challenging encroachments on the common law and the liberty of the subject. This book ends in 1616 with the lectures of Francis Ashley, summarising the effects of the new learning, and then Coke's dismissal for pushing his case too hard. A challenging new account.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in English legal history
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in English legal history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The legal character of Magna Carta -- Chapter 29 in the fourteenth century -- Magna Carta in the inns of court 1340-1540 -- Personal liberty and the church -- Royal prerogative and common law under Elizabeth I -- William Fleetwood and Magna Carta -- The resurgence of chapter 29 after 1580 -- Magna Carta and the rule of law 1592-1606 -- Sir Edward Coke and Magna Carta 1606-1615 -- "A year consecrate to justice" 1616 -- Myth and reality -- Appendices. Two Fifteenth-Century Readings on Chapter 29 -- Actions Founded on Chapter 29 (1501-32) -- William Fleetwood on Chapter 29 (c. 1558) -- Fleetwood's Tracts on Magna Carta and on Statutes: a concordance of parallel passages -- Six Elizabethan Cases (1582-1600) -- The Judges' resolutions on Habeas Corpus (1592) -- Coke's Memorandum on Chapter 29 (1604) -- Whetherly v. Whetherly (1605) -- Maunsell's Case (1607) -- Bulthorpe v. Ladbrook (1607).
- Call Number
- JFE 17-2073
- ISBN
- 9781107187054
- 1107187052
- LCCN
- 2016034384
- OCLC
- 956379602
- Author
- Baker, John H. (John Hamilton), author.
- Title
- The reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616 / Sir John Baker.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in English legal historyCambridge studies in English legal history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1699
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-2073