Search results for: “Sir Edward Coke and”
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Edward I Proclamations
This issue under the Ruling of King Edward I of England Royal Charters and Writs of Proclamation Edward I Proclamations and Medieval Law Edward I Proclamations and Legal History Legal Materials (Compiled by the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) Barrington, Boyd C., ed. The […]
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Edward Coke
Coke Sir Edward Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), English jurist, who is considered one of the most eminent jurists in all English history, and best known as a compiler of the law. Often called Lord Coke or Lord Cooke, he was born in Norfolk, and educated at the University of Cambridge. He was […]
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Magna Carta Commentaries and Treatises
Magna Carta: Commentaries and Treatises Introduction At the beginning of the twentieth century, Charles McIlwain observed that the new histories of the Magna Carta were portraying the charter as a “document of reaction” that could only fulfill its purported greatness “when men [were] no […]
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Absolute Rights of Englishmen
British Political and Social Thought: Common Law and the Absolute Rights of Englishmen Introduction to Absolute Rights of Englishmen In the 17th and 18th centuries some thinkers looked to England's legal history to justify a greater role for Parliament and rule by law rather than by royal […]
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Primer Seisin
History of Primer Seisin Primer Seisin, which is usually regarded as a separate incident, and figures as such in Blackstone’s list, is perhaps better understood, not as an incident at all, but as a special procedure—effective and summary—whereby the Crown could enforce the four incidents […]
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Gentleman
English Law: Gentleman in the Past In the English law, according to Sir Edward Coke, is one who bears a coat of armor. 2 Inst. 667. In the United States of America, this word is unknown to the law, but in many places it is applied, by courtesy, to all men. See Poth. Proc. Crim.…
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Gentleman
English Law: Gentleman in the Past In the English law, according to Sir Edward Coke, is one who bears a coat of armor. 2 Inst. 667. In the United States of America, this word is unknown to the law, but in many places it is applied, by courtesy, to all men. See Poth. Proc. Crim.…
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Chancery
History Chancery, in English law, the court of the lord chancellor of England, consolidated in 1873 along with the other superior courts in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Its origin is noticed under the head of Chancellor. It has been customary to say that the court of chancery consists […]
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Chancery
History Chancery, in English law, the court of the lord chancellor of England, consolidated in 1873 along with the other superior courts in the Supreme Court of Judicature. Its origin is noticed under the head of Chancellor. It has been customary to say that the court of chancery consists […]
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Burglary
Definition of Burglary Sec 9 of the theft act 1978 defines the offence of burglary. In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Burglary : The offence, under the Theft Act 1968, of either entering a building, ship, or inhabited vehicle (e.g. a caravan) as a […]
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Mortmain
Meaning of Mortmain The following is an old definition of Mortmain [1]: Originally, a purchase of land by any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal. But these purchases having been chiefly made by religious houses, in consequence of which the lands became perpetually […]
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Legitimation
History of Legitimation and Ligitimacy English law takes account solely of the fact that marriage precedes the birth of the child; at whatever period the birth happens after the marriage, the offspring is prima facie legitimate. The presumption of law is always in favour of the […]
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Thomas Coventry
Thomas Coventry in United Kingdom
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Patent System
History of the Patent System in England The following information about Patents, and the Patent System. is from the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States by the Best American and European Writers (1899). The origin of the patent […]
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John Cowell
John Cowell (1554-1611), English jurist, was born at Ernsborough, Devonshire. He was educated at Eton, and King’s College, Cambridge, ultimately becoming professor of civil law in that university, and master of Trinity Hall. In 1607 he compiled a law dictionary, The Interpreter, in which he […]