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The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Period: Ii, John P. Dawson
The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Period: Ii, John P. Dawson
Michigan Law Review
In a previous instalment an attempt was made to describe the main subjects of private litigation dealt with by the English Privy Council under the Tudors and early Stuarts. It was suggested that the subjects were most heterogeneous and that the total volume of such litigation was large. In the present instalment will be discussed, first, the methods used to reduce the volume of private litigation by direct and indirect means; then the powers of coercion possessed by the Privy Council; and finally, its relations to the ordinary courts.
The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Periods: I, John P. Dawson
The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Periods: I, John P. Dawson
Michigan Law Review
It has been often said that the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England were pre-eminently the age of conciliar government. The activities of the Tudor Privy Council extended into every phase of national life and were responsible, more than any other single factor, for the effective organization of an English national state. These activities continued under the first two Stuarts, with no break in institutional development, though they widened the gulf between Crown and people and hastened a revolution.
Wormser: The Law, Michigan Law Review
Wormser: The Law, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
a Review of THE LAW By Rene A. Wormser.
Keeney: Judgment By Peers, Michigan Law Review
Keeney: Judgment By Peers, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of JUDGMENT BY PEERS. By Barnaby C. Keeney.