The reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616

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The reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616

Sir John Baker

(Cambridge studies in English legal history)

Cambridge University Press, 2018

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Bibliography: p. 534-541

Includes index

"First paperback edition 2018"--T.p. verso

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This new account of the influence of Magna Carta on the development of English public law is based largely on unpublished manuscripts. The story was discontinuous. Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries the charter was practically a spent force. Late-medieval law lectures gave no hint of its later importance, and even in the 1550s a commentary on Magna Carta by William Fleetwood was still cast in the late-medieval mould. Constitutional issues rarely surfaced in the courts. But a new impetus was given to chapter 29 in 1581 by the 'Puritan' barrister Robert Snagge, and by the speeches and tracts of his colleagues, and by 1587 it was being exploited by lawyers in a variety of contexts. Edward Coke seized on the new learning at once. He made extensive claims for chapter 29 while at the bar, linking it with habeas corpus, and then as a judge (1606-16) he deployed it with effect in challenging encroachments on the common law. The book ends in 1616 with the lectures of Francis Ashley, summarising the new learning, and (a few weeks later) Coke's dismissal for defending too vigorously the liberty of the subject under the common law.

目次

  • 1. The legal character of Magna Carta
  • 2. Chapter 29 in the fourteenth century
  • 3. Magna Carta in the Inns of Court, 1340-1540
  • 4. Personal liberty and the Church
  • 5. Royal prerogative and common law under Elizabeth I
  • 6. William Fleetwood and Magna Carta
  • 7. The resurgence of Chapter 29 after 1580
  • 8. Magna Carta and the rule of law, 1592-1606
  • 9. Sir Edward Coke and Magna Carta, 1606-15
  • 10. 'A year consecrate to justice': 1616
  • 11. Myth and reality.

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