Fundamental authority in late medieval English law
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Fundamental authority in late medieval English law
(Cambridge studies in English legal history)
Cambridge University Press, 1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Shows how two sets of ideas about law and authority emerged in the late-medieval period, one stressing the moral basis of law, the other advancing the view that laws are authoritative simply because they originate in the human will.
Table of Contents
- Authority and consent - the populist thesis
- human law - the positivist thesis
- natural law - the superior moral law
- "Iustitia, rigor iuris" and "aequitas"
- judicial decisions and the authority of reason
- conscience in the common law
- mischief and inconvenience.
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