Public Order and Law Enforcement: The Local Administration of Criminal Justice, 1294-1350The period from 1294 to 1350 witnessed the final phase of the Angevin administrative advances in England, and was crucial in determining the shape and principal features of England's new judicial system. This study challenges the received orthodoxy on judicial development in the first half of the 14th century. It concentrates on the personnel of local justice and the wider administrative context to build up a composite picture of attitudes to public order and law enforcement through a systematic examination of the surviving legal records. |
Contents
Early Commissions of the Peace c 1287c 1314 | 11 |
Commissions to KeepersJustices in the Reign of Edward II | 34 |
13271350 | 49 |
The Assize and Gaol Delivery Circuits before 1328 | 85 |
The Justices of Assize and Gaol Delivery 13281350 | 107 |
Social Relationships within the County | 125 |
Legal and Administrative Work in the Shires | 147 |
The Prosecution of Crime in the Early Fourteenth Century | 169 |
The Composition of Juries and the Conduct of Medieval Trials | 187 |
Jury Verdicts and the Outcome of Trials | 208 |
Politics and Law | 225 |
Local Society and the Law | 257 |
Conclusion | 279 |
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Public Order and Law Enforcement: The Local Administration of Criminal ... Anthony Musson No preview available - 1996 |
Public Order and Law Enforcement: The Local Administration of Criminal ... Anthony Musson No preview available - 2001 |
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