Research Catalog

Title

The royal prerogative and the learning of the Inns of Court / Margaret McGlynn.

Author

McGlynn, Margaret, 1968-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description

xi, 349 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century Prerogativa Regis, a central text of fiscal feudalism, was introduced into the curriculum of the Inns of Court, developed, and then abandoned. This book argues that while lawyers often turned their attention to the text when political and financial issues brought it to the fore, they sought to maintain an intellectual consistency and coherence in the law. Discussions of both substance and procedure demonstrate how readers reflected the concerns of their time in the topics they chose to consider and how they drew on the learning of both their predecessors and their peers at the Inns. The first study based primarily on readings, this book throws new light on legal education, early Tudor financial and administrative procedure, and the relationship between the ways that law was made, taught, and used."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in English legal history

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in English legal history.

Subject

• Inns of Court School of Law > History
• Geschichte 1370-1570
• Prerogative, Royal > England > History
• Feudal law > England > History
• Inns of court

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-331) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The early readings -- 2. Expansion and debate -- 3. Frowyk and Constable on primer seisin -- 4. Spelman, Yorke, and the campaign against uses -- 5. The Edwardian readers and beyond -- App. 1. Thomas Frowyk's reading on Prerogativa Regis -- App. 2. John Spelman's reading on Prerogativa Regis.

ISBN

0521804299

LCCN

^^2003043475

OCLC

• 51738868
• SCSB-10298893

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library