Public order and law enforcement : the local administration of criminal justice, 1294-1350
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Public order and law enforcement : the local administration of criminal justice, 1294-1350
Boydell Press, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-307) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The final phase in Angevin administrative advances in England was crucial in determining the shape and principal features of England's new judicial system. This study 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. Dr ANTHONY MUSSONgained his Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The evolution of the Justices of the Peace: early Commissions of the Peace (c 1289 - c 1314)
- Commissions to Keepers/Justices in the reign of Edward II (1314-1327)
- Commissions to Keepers/Justices in the reign of Edward III (1327-1350). Part 2 The development of the assize circuits: the assize and gaol delivery circuits before 1328
- the Justices of Assize and gaol delivery (1328-1350). Part 3 Local judicial administration - the personnel: social relationships within the county
- legal and administrative work in the shires. Part 4 Trial procedure and jury verdicts: the prosecution of crime in the early-14th century
- the composition of juries and the conduct of medieval trials
- jury verdicts and the outcome of trials. Part 5 The impact of legal change on politics and society: politics and law
- local society and the law.
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