Selden Society. Select Pleas of the Crown. Volume 1. A.D. 1200 to 1225
VINTAGESTAN BOOKS Title: Selden Society. Select Pleas of the Crown. Volume 1. A.D. 1200 to 1225 Language: English and Latin Summary: This book presents selected cases from the Curia Regis rolls, the records of royal justice, with the original Latin and facing English translations. The volume is essentially a casebook of early thirteenth-century criminal and quasi-criminal justice. Maitland selected cases to show how the king's courts actually dealt with crime, accusations, local courts, juries, sheriffs, and appeals. The material covers proceedings in various places and before royal justices in eyre, including Lincoln, Northampton, Bedford, Lichfield, Shrewsbury, Somerset, Dorset, Warwick, and Ilchester, as well as pleas before the king. The proceedings show that medieval criminal justice depended heavily on local knowledge and communal testimony. Jurors, townships, hundreds, coroners and pledges frequently supplied information about what had happened and whether an accused person was suspected. For example, one case records a man accused of theft whom local jurors cleared except for taking a fowl while apparently suffering from mental illness. A particularly important feature is the role of appeals. Individuals could bring accusations of serious wrongdoing, but these did not necessarily result in a modern-style trial and conviction. Some appeals were declared defective or null, while others ended without a recorded conclusion. Maitland's selection therefore gives a strong impression that the machinery of criminal justice could be slow, procedural and frequently ineffective. Church and secular justice The volume also illustrates the developing boundary between royal justice and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Several cases involve clerics or alleged clerics claiming that their cases should be dealt with by an ecclesiastical court. In some instances, the secular justices accepted the claim; in others they required proof of clerical status before surrendering the accused. Language: English & Latin Edited by: F. W. Maitland Publisher: Bernard Quaritch. London Year Published: 1888 Edition: 1st Edition Dimensions: 26cm x 20.5cm Binding type: Hardcover ISBN: Notes: Ex library. The crime and judgement is written in Latin and a translation is then presented in English. SKU: VSS / 158 / H / 7645 / 6015 Condition Dust Jacket Condition: Not applicable Book condition: Fair. Rubbing, wear, bumps, fading, tears, age toning, Binding: Intact Pages: 164 pages
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