Bills of Custody in the reign of Henry VI

Jenks, Susanne

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“…Hence, there was no need to proffer the bill on a Sunday. Moreover, Thomas had been given bail until the "quindene of Easter," that is at least until 20 April 1450, and since the concept of being in custody already included bail in these years, 77 Alice could even have waited until 20 April to present her bill against him. The conclusion surely must be that, in the fifteenth century, the judges of the King's Bench sat on Sundays and major Holy Days to hear and determine Bills of Custody.…”

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Preparing for Fusion: Reforming the Nineteenth-Century Court of Chancery, Part II

Lobban¹

2004

Law hist. rev.

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As demonstrated in Part I, the question of Chancery reform before 1827 was much debated in party terms and focused largely on Lord Eldon's shortcomings as a decision-maker. After Eldon's departure, it largely ceased to be a party-political issue, although by 1830 law reform in general was firmly on the political agenda. With Eldon gone, there was much common ground on the outlines of Chancery reform. This can be seen from the plan proposed in the Commons by the conservative Sir Edward Sugden in December 1830. Sugden suggested creating a court of appeal for equity, on which the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls, Chief Baron, and Vice Chancellor would sit. He proposed reforms in the masters' offices, under which they would be paid salaries rather than fees, and he wanted masters to sit in open court, with limited judicial functions. He also advocated retrenchment of sinecures and the removal of payment by fees. These ideas were all echoed in the new reformist Chancellor Brougham's proposals for the court, which he elaborated in the spring of 1831.

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“…We do know, however, how many Bills of Custody were proffered in court during thirty-nine years of Henry VI's reign (1422-1461), namely 2274. 89 Eighty-one of those (roughly 3.5 percent) were produced on a Sunday or Holy Day. Although this number is quite moderate, we still have to explain why it happened at all.…”

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Preparing for Fusion: Reforming the Nineteenth-Century Court of Chancery, Part II

Lobban¹

2004

Law hist. rev.

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Bill Litigation and the Observance of Sundays and Major Festivals in the Court of King's Bench in the Fifteenth Century

Jenks

2004

Law hist. rev.

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The attitudes of medieval people toward Sundays and Holy Days have always been of interest to historians. They have been studied from at least five different perspectives. Max Levy, for instance, explained how Sunday developed from a day that commemorated Christ's resurrection, but was originally a working day (dies dominica), to a day of worship, contemplation, and rest. Initially no (servile) work was allowed, but exceptions were accepted because of necessity, like harvest work, or because of good intentions, like concern for the common good or for a pious cause. Others looked at the stance of the Church, analyzing the protests against the non-observance of Holy Days as well as the objections raised to the observance of Holy Days from the clergy or from laymen, or concentrated mainly on the work ban and its implications for working life in the Middle Ages. Willard and Haskett studied the observance of Sundays and Holy Days in government departments like the Lower Exchequer or the Chancery to see to what extent the working of the English government was affected. Legal historians, however, have not shown much interest in how the courts observed Sundays and Holy Days, mainly because everything seemed to have been settled since the late thirteenth century. Paul Brand recently stated that it had “clearly become the general practice by the second half of the reign of Edward I for the Common Bench and King's Bench not to sit on Sundays,” or on All Saints Day (1 November), All Souls Day (2 November), the feast of the Purification (2 February), Ascensiontide, and the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (24 June), all of which fell within term time.

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Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London 1300–1550

Tucker¹

2007

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Between 1300 and 1550, London's courts were the most important English lay law courts outside Westminster. They served the most active and innovative of the local jurisdictions in which custom combined with the common law to produce different legal remedies from those contemporaneously available in the central courts. More importantly for the long term, not only did London's practices affect other local courts, but they influenced the development of the national common law, and quite possibly the development of the legal profession itself. This 2007 book provides a detailed account, accessible to non-legal historians, of the administration of the law by the medieval and early modern city of London. In analysing the workings of London's laws and law courts and the careers of those who worked in them, it shows how that administration, and those involved in it, helped to shape the modern English law.

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Bills of Custody in the reign of Henry VI

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Preparing for Fusion: Reforming the Nineteenth-Century Court of Chancery, Part II

Preparing for Fusion: Reforming the Nineteenth-Century Court of Chancery, Part II

Bill Litigation and the Observance of Sundays and Major Festivals in the Court of King's Bench in the Fifteenth Century

Law Courts and Lawyers in the City of London 1300–1550

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