Local Courts

Local Courts in United Kingdom

Non Royal Courts

(Source: the University of South Caroline Gould School of Law) These included the county and borough courts, such as the Court of the Mayor of London, as well as the Quarterly Sessions of the Justices of the Peace. Local gentry were given power through special commissions issued annually. General Commissions of the Peace for the whole country were established by statute in 1327. The county court consisted of a court for civil pleas whose proceedings were enrolled by the sheriff, and a court of pleas of the crown, whose proceedings were enrolled both by the sheriffs and the coroners.

Local Courts and Medieval Law

Local Courts and Legal History

Bibliographies of English Law History

  • Maxwell, William H. A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 1: English Law to 1800. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1955-
  • Beale, Joseph H. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
  • Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.

Resources

See Also

  • Guilds (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Usury (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Legal History Review (in this legal Encyclopedia)
  • Concilliar Courts (in this legal Encyclopedia)

Bibliographies of English Law History

  • Maxwell, William H. A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Volume 1: English Law to 1800. London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1955-
  • Beale, Joseph H. A Bibliography of Early English Law Books. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
  • Winfield, Percy H. The Chief Sources of English Legal History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.

Resources

See Also

Further Reading

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